UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been quoted in the press as condemning the inflammatory language of Enoch Powell's famous rivers of blood speech. Apparently he blames this speech for the susbsequent failure of the political establishment to debate immigration.
No blame attaches to the political establishment then Mr Farage? Farage is of course a part of the political establishment. His party considers it acceptable to vote Conservative. Let me remind readers of the rivers of blood speech, which included this quote:
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual
inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material
of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like
watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So
insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for
the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancés whom they
have never seen.
So here is a challenge to the cowardly Nigel Farage. You make a speech about immigration. Do not include inflammatory language, but be sure to cover the most important issues. Let's see if your speech manages to stimulate debate. Or maybe it will just be ignored.
Me thinks that you are too disparaging of Nigel. I am also old enough to recall the speech by Enoch Powell, and also the riots in Dudley, near Wolverhampton, where Enoch was the Hon Member of Parliament. Let us or you rush to condemn Nigel or UKIP, there are no other alternatives in today's politico classes.
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