What would England be like if Enoch Powell had succeeded?

Question

I think it would paradise on earth. Share you happy anwser

Answer 1

I saw a car the other day with a sticker on the back window 'Come back Enoch - all is forgiven!'

It wasn't good for votes what Enoch Powell said, but he was a true visionary and I bet he's turning in his grave today.

I think the Afro Caribbean Brits are a fine example of integration and I take my hat off to them.

I don't know about England, but the UK would certainly have been a more peaceful and secure place in 2006 if successive governments had had the courage to manage immigration properly.

I watched the balaclava hooded young men climbing over the fence at the French Processing camp in Songat a few years back - who were they?

Answer 2

I don't understand your question. Enoch Powell simply made a speech warning us about a situation which has in fact emerged in Britain. He was much maligned and at his funeral it was appalling to see the malice of people who turned up to demonstrate and hurl abuse on this, of all occasions. They even continued to persecute his widow, who was not even allowed to grieve quietly. This was an appalling way to behave to anyone, above all to a brave man who had done no more than express an honest opinion which time has borne out.

Of course, the question remains as to what would have happened if instead of decrying him people had sat up and taken his warning seriously. A decision was taken thirty years ago by the government of the time to stop primary immigration to the UK. However, they simply didn't follow this through in practice. Why, one wonders? Had they had the will to follow it through, many of our present day problems might have been avoided.

Answer 3

No rivers of blood just a few internal riots that took care of themselves. No need for immigration laws or trade unions. Wage rises every year. No care homes for the elderly- all safe in extended family homes. No feral youths but a strict regimental Borstal system that works properly. A Parliament that answered to the people not the Republican P.M!. Laws that made sense and easy to apply not some gimmicky Political Correct slapstick whim. A European Union that kept the Feudal system and setting standards from here in the U.K. No knee-jerk reactions to a problem that isn't broken only by some do gooders called H&S. Pastimes for children that develope common sense and moral foundings, not fear of prosecution over a little accident or injury.
I sound like Im missing something, better stop before I commit suicide, thats not if the street thugs get to me first!!!.

Answer 4

well i guess, sort of think of nazi germany summer 1938
the sun is beating down children are happily playing in the sun in the park the whole countrys feeling upbeat good about itself after finding its true identity again,employment is good,clean streets
the whole nation feels there is place in the future for the country
a prosperous nation of empowerd people
the proplems of illegals and immigrants is all but a memory. the ghettos have dissapeared
people don't fear violence and intimidation in the streets as the education system is strong and teaches a more centralised education curriculum focusing on community spirit and respect and physical education
a nationalistic approach,no work turned over to foreign countries by capitalist fatcats, a home grown nation strong!
and free from america,although still a friend because in this dream america is being run by george bushes descendents,
who have turned america into the nationalistic utopia it should always have been
there goes my alarm clock

Answer 5

A vastly improved country. I recall that in a debate years after the Rivers of Blood Speech, a moderate voice said 'Better an Enoch Powell today than an Adolf Hitler tomorrow'. We live in hope.

Answer 6

I don't think Enoch Powell was a racist. I think things would be much the same but we wouldn't be in the European Union

Answer 7

What chance had he?
You dumped him over here with a load of tight arsed unionists as soon as he raised his head above the parapet and said what all the rest of you were thinking.
You bloody English are good at this. Give a guy plenty of rope and when it looks like he might hang someone in the establishment dump him where there are a load of lackeys that will sooner or later run out of steam. and then you bury him with them.

Answer 8

Maybe it would be better may be not. What id wrong is that ifpeople come here they abide by our conventions not their own. If you go to Saudi Arabia you have tp confirm to their convention Tit for Tat

Answer 9

A lovely place with nowhere to get a curry after the pub.

Answer 10

We'd be screwed. We wouldn't have the cheap labour force immigrants bring us, so would have failed to recruit people to a lot of the low income jobs, so we would have seen a lot more industries die due to lack of workers, and now we would be importing all our food, no one would be cleaning our offices - I mean, for crying out loud, the original immigrants were invited to this country as we had a labour shortage - we needed people to work, otherwise our economy would have been totally screwed. Now we have a lot of second, third and fourth generation people living here - my "white" family only goes back 6 generations on one side in this country.

Immigration is what has made, and will continue to make, Britain Great. Without the Roman invasion and immigration of people, Briton would have stayed in the neolithic age. Without the Saxon mass immigration Briton would have stayed in total anarchy for a lot longer after the fall of Rome. Without the Norman conquest and immigration in the 11th and 12th centuries, again we would have stagnated and never risen to be one of the super powers of mediaeval Europe. Without the continued immigration from countries such as Ireland and main land Europe during the 15th century plus we would have missed out on a lot of our cultural advancement (Oscar Wilde, anyone?). And without the more recent immigration of our cousins from the Indian sub-continent and from Africa, the Carribean etc, we would again have stagnated and declined further. We are and always have been a mixed race and ethnicity island - our ability to work around these problems and embrace them has defined our national character, and will continue to do so. A country (as well as any system) where there is no need to change, no need to adapt, stagnates - we have continued to grow as we have never done this, and that is why this small island off the European main land is still one of the world leaders in so many areas.