He was. And nearly everybody thinks so, especially in places most affected by immigration such as the West Midlands. None of the main parties will tell the truth. No wonder the BNP is picking up votes.
The spineless response of the Tory leadership proves their recent conversion from windmill-loving and hoodie-hugging is only skin-deep.
They are still miles away from connecting with ordinary people, whose cities have been overwhelmed by immigrants who will neither integrate nor accept our culture. Margaret Thatcher harvested many of her votes because she articulated the fear of being “swamped” by alien cultures. Who speaks for England now?
Enoch Powell was my friend for 30 years. He was no racist. He entered politics in devotion to the Indian Empire and was so saturated in its culture, he qualified as an interpreter in Urdu. He rebelled against the Macmillan Government over atrocities against African detainees at Hola Camp in Kenya in 1959.
But Powell saw mass immigration would create problems. In “That Speech” in 1968, he said, “As I look ahead I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.”
The Roman was Virgil, whom Powell (a former Classics professor) quoted in the original Latin: “Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.” Powell feared a backlash from the scale and speed of immigrant settlement in concentrated areas.
Immigration is out of control and millions of indigenous Britons feel like foreigners in their own country. Even Gordon Broon recognises this. A few weeks ago, posing as leader of the Brownish National Party, he promised “British jobs for British workers.”
All spin and lies, of course. EU law, which Broon wants to extend without a referendum, stops us deciding who we want to let into this country.
Two weeks ago, Cabinet Minister Peter Hain (himself an undesirable immigrant) came clean, admitting 1.1 million foreign nationals have taken jobs here since 1997, not 300,000 as previously claimed.
The Office for National Statistics says it is 1.5 million. Governments have routinely deceived the British people about mass immigration. Those, like Enoch, who campaigned to close the door, were abused as fantasists and racists.
Yet, if we had had a referendum 40 years ago, how many of us would have voted to transform our great cities into colonies of foreign cultures?
In the Sixties and Seventies politicians lied about “New Commonwealth” immigration. Now, it is Europe. Tony B Liar said only 13,000 Eastern Europeans would come here when their countries joined the EU in 2004.
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