Was Enoch Powell right after all?

His rivers of blood speech predicted the problems with too much immigration but he was labelled a racist.

He has always been right

We'll know soon enough...

Dont see any rivers! Not even a trickle!..So what are you going on about?

yes he was very racist!

This question has been asked hundreds of times. No he was a racist.

History has shown that it unfortunately looks like he was right.

YES!!

he was just stating facts not being racist

and OMG was he right

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he would be turning in his grave..he was soooo right.

Sad to say that a Labour government has allowed his predictions to become reality.

yes he was right as we are starting to see

Yes, it's just a question of when, where and to what degree.

The man was before his time !! I grew up in that era of Powell and Thatcher-who did a lot of damage to the popuation I grew up in. He was right in what he said but not being racist just sensible for economical forsight. Look at the problems we have now with immigration and think back to what Enoch Powell said. Its isn't racist to decline as many immigrants as we should. Its being sensible as we don't have the resources for everyone. Politicians in England are scared to speak up as they have turned political correctness and racism against us and themselves. So much for freedom of speech!

Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech was not about too much immigration but about racism. He was so upset by the way the gutter press and racist morons interpreted his speech that he withdrew from English politics.

For as long as there are racists, we will have problems. If particular groups feel threatened, they will seek to defend themselves and rally to the cause of the racists in their own society. The BNP is the best recruiting sergeant that Al Qaeda could ever have hoped for.

I have thought that for along time and i am not racist, but there are far too many people now coming into our country and we are just a small island compared to a lot of others.

He was right, this country has sadly become a victim of ts own gain, we colonised the world, and now, since our Empire has fallen, we are now being swamped with so many immigrants that we do not even know how many we have in the country! Sooner or later, the White, English speaking Briton, will be a thing of the past.

lets be grateful that the topic of immigration can be brought up today without someone being labeled a racist. 10 Years ago they would have called you a Klansman just for being against any type of immigration.

Can any sensible person dispute that he was right?

Enoch Powell was and is the only person who was right all along

Yes, he was right but it's taken too long for people to realise this!

no, for the single fact that we need imigration to sustain the economy. People enter the country and leave it which is something he seemed to ignore.

Yes he was very far right
That doesn't mean his facts and predictions weren't correct
Your English identity is almost eroded to nothing
You can't speak without a vocal minority of your own kind shouting you down and pointing the accusing finger. And now you have thought police throwing you in jail for speaking your mind. You are in a mess of your own making for voting in the people who let this happen to you out of political correctness
You have always had the power to pick your own leaders but you never go out and vote

Yes he was, his views and outspoken opinions were generally accepted but the people in power and opposition of the day were not ready to stand by him, he was a loose cannon, in the scheme of things. and the fall guy for a lot of common feeling and thoughts.

He was right and this government knows it, but are too scared to admit it, so they keep passing laws to try to prevent it happening. It is happening now and most British people can see it happening in their daily lives. Things will get worse and the citizens will respond accordingly.

Too damn right he was, as every day continues to prove

Everything he said has come true, Powers at B should have listened, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.

Yes he was.
Only the English would wait for "the rivers of blood".
You only have to look at the figures for the number of "Real British people" who are now emigrating before it comes.
"Real British people" are the ones who have generations before them sweating blood and even laying down their lives for this country.

from proof of what is happening we need have no doubt ! our economy is crumbling, we have no cash for teachers, n.h.s. or dental treatment or many other things this country needs/wants, but somehow there is always some to keep immigrants, my ex partner worked in a block of flats that had to house immigrants and they were fully furnished down to toothbrushes and teaspoons, i work full time have for many many years, i don't know how to claim anything, nor wud i, but should i wanna leave my job i would not be allowed a penny, i;m told , for six weeks so i stick this s...out cos i have a morgage..........which i will eventually be penalised for !! i am not racist and have many freinds who work where i work who are from India/Poland and Hungary, they are carers and work long hard hours, there are many who won't work including British people.its totally unfair,

Completely.

I think his speech was misunderstood. Had he been a university lecturer rather than a politician, people interpreted his speech as being racist, i.e. that we should prevent immigration because of the problems immigrants cause.

Immigration does cause problems. This is not to say that immigrants cause problems, and this is a very important distinction, rather than mere semantics. Mass immigration solved the problems of a labour shortage in the 1960s, but there was no long term policy of integration, be it social, educational etc.

Enoch Powell's speech represented a realisation that the Government's policy was a short sighted one, which needed much greater planning.

For these reasons, I would regard him not as a racist, but as a realist. He was unsupported by the Government which chose to ally itself with the newspapers, thereby avoiding criticism for an immigration ploicy which could have been written on the back of a fag packet.

I knew Enoch Powell and he wasn't a racist - he only voiced his concerns about too much immigration.

His rivers of blood speech has been taken out of context, and bastardised over the years. He was warning us that allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country, without requiring them to conform to our culture, would lead to unrest.

I think that his words were prophetic.

It was his idea to bring them here in the first place.

No, you're ugly - I'm in the Brad Pitt/George Clooney league compared with you.