It was forty years ago today when one of the most controversial Political Speeches in British History was made.
Of course it was the late Enoch Powells "Rivers of Blood" speech that highlighted the problems of immigration.
Following this speech Powell became a bit of o political outcast, the left wing branded him a racist while the right wing saw him as a traitor. However the people saw him as an hero.
Today Immigration is a major issue in Britain and I'm not anti anybody, its the fact we are a small country, we are full. We have major unrest in Cities our borders are open to the rest of Europe.
Yes we have a multi-cultural society and in there is nothing wrong with that if you benefit from it but we are overcrowded, I m proud of my heritage, I'm against nobody but we haven't room. The last ten years our pathetic government have kept their eyes closed that is why we have unrest in our cities & towns, that is why we are producing home grown terrorists, nobody is happy from all the ethnic groups.
Compare us to the USA we have 1/48th of the land area yet our population is about 1/6, if that is not too full I don't know what is.
Anyway Enoch maybe you were right at least you had the bottle to speak the truth :-
2 comments:
I think you are right to a certain degree.
A lot of people from other countries, with a culture very different to ours, find it hard to fit in. They feel isolated and feel the need to only socialise with people from their own culture. That automaticaly causes division.
I have to tell you that it is a pet peeve of mine when i hear people talking to each other in their native tongue. I feel like yelling at them ,"This is Australia, speak australian!"
Then there's the gang thing. One ethnic group opposes the other and they fight each other for "territory rights" when neither even comes from here or respects the laws!
And then there is the space that you speak of. Luckily there is lots of space in Australia that people can inhabit. Maybe you should move over here? lol
I can't imagine a government letting things get as bad as you discribe.
Hopefully your new prime minister will fix things in time.
I also have to say that i think it's a bit of a double standard that the Australian government won't let boat people in, when the early settlers were boat people themselves! lol
I watched a BBC documentary about this speech only a few weeks ago, it was quite fascinating. Apparently a lot of the speech wasn't either filmed or recorded, so the most sensational parts of it were taken our of context. He was correct in many ways, but some of his phrasing was pretty racist when you listen to it with today's ear. I think that's a generation thing. My Dad , who hasn't got a bad bone in his body, says some things even now that gets a good telling off from me! lol
What can't be denied is we are a country that only has so much space, and so many resources. Immigration has to be drastically reduced and it has to be done NOW!
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