For Powell, the “ever-increasing settlement” of such persons, especially as an English-born yet “alien element” (Powell 2007), threatened the national heredity. How dare I say such a horrible thing? They are not, and never have been, immigrants. a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. BBC defends plans to broadcast Enoch Powell 'rivers of blood' speech BBC under fire over plan to air Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech Powell died aged 95 in 1988. Mr Heath has put it we will have no "first-class citizens" and "second-class beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. I also want to apprehend Powell’s influence beyond those political figures on the right who have self-avowedly embraced him. sold to a Negro. Enoch Powell, a Conservative member of Parliament, gave what became known as the “Rivers of Blood” speech in 1968. England is now overrun with immigrants, legal and not, and it’s not a pretty sight. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me: “Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4064105"Enoch Powell" (Rivers of Blood Speech FULL) When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Moreover, Powell never presented Anglo-Saxon members of the Commonwealth as a national threat in the same way that he did “coloured immigration”. It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, “The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7am by two Negroes If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects for the future. Whole areas, towns, and parts of towns across England will be occupied by different sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population. of re-emigration. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the United States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable Comments are moderated. The English man could not suffer “the safety, ease and irresponsibility of servitude”; he was bound instead to pursue “freedom… [and] the responsibilities and the opportunities, which are inseparable from it” (Powell 1970). EMBED. gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. and approaching that of Greater London. experience can hardly imagine. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards By the same token, they attract satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. Enoch Powell: A Nation or No Nation? In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on Immigrants have offered to buy her house — at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most in a few months. I shan't be Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. as to his reasons and motive for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another. Certainly, the interpretation of an intellectual project is always open to question and critique. thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are And now here we all are. Windows are broken. In what follows, I utilize various speeches and texts of Powell in the 1960s and early 1970s in order to lay out ten fundamental premises and propositions of that political philosophy. This is why to enact legislation of the kind before Parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to the gunpowder. and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood." children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed 'The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain Clearly, the greatest British statesman after Churchill (and I’m being somewhat conventional, speaking of the largeness of the man on the historical stage, not necessarily the qualities of his intellect, judgment, or character: Churchill’s vanity may well have destroyed the West’s last chance to survive what was already apparent to prescient men as the accelerating racial contraction in Occidental scope and power).