The preening elites in the media universities and government have ALWAYS known Enoch Powell was right about massive Third World immigration into the West. And because he was right, no person in recent history has been so viciously pilloried and condemned by these same Marxist-based institutions as Powell. Based on his prescient predictions and analysis, action is required now. Yes, NOW.
“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ‘controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.” — Enoch Powell Speech to the Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, Birmingham (13 June 1970)
German establishment newspaper Die Welt (The World) has published a sympathetic article about former British Conservative politician Enoch Powell – a hero of anti mass migration campaigners often vilified by the political left – in a reflection on the migration crisis.
In British political discourse, reference to the late Wolverhampton Member of Parliament is most often an invitation for a firestorm of criticism from the same sort of pro mass-migration activists who contributed to the downfall of Mr. Powell himself. Yet the same does not appear to hold true in Germany were a thoughtful editorial on the prescience of Mr. Powell’s comments on mass migration has elicited little excitement.
Reporting the classical source of his now infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech — the Roman poet Virgil — the column by German historian Michael Stürmer said no one in British politics had been “punished” so “mercilessly” as Powell for stepping out of line.
Entitled ‘Powell’s Early Warning on Mass Migration’, the piece opens by quoting the book of Ecclesiastes from the Bible, that “Everything on earth has its own time and its own season”, appealing to the idea that Powell himself was ahead of his own time, and crucified politically for it.
Remarking that Powell’s message was not just “against the political correctness of the 1960s”, it also offended the interests of British industry which wanted to import cheap labour. Pursuing that goal, the editorial contends, Britain like Germany did not at the time give attention to “the idea of long-term consequences” and so suffers today.
This opportunism was something Mr. Powell was alive to and rather than go quietly to the House of Lords following his dismissal from the shadow cabinet he preferred instead to fall on his sword to show up the folly of official policy on mass migration. The article reports this was a position with which he knew through opinion polls many Britons shared.
Closing, the article contends Mr. Powell would have experienced no pleasure at seeing his predictions fulfilled — a dose of schadenfreude. Yet it states he had the ability to see the future of mass migration “earlier and more clearly with others”.
Enoch Powell was dismissed from the shadow cabinet in 1968 after a political speech deemed at the time beyond acceptable. Speaking to a party audience in Birmingham, Mr. Powell said the country was undergoing a transformation forced by mass migration for which “there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history”.
He said:”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.