2006-11-19 22:46:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Oooh! Controversial!
Old Enoch had one of the finest intellects of his generation - not even his enemies denied him that.
He has always been seen as a nasty old racist, but I don't think it was ever that simple. He wasn't being nasty about other races per se, as far as I recall. He was talking about the dangers of non-integration of new groups of people into British society.
He didn't manage to get this fine distinction across very well, though, and all his talk about rivers of blood certainly sounded very racist at the time.
But after 7/7, he could be viewed as having had a unique prophetic insight.
2006-11-19 22:55:09 · answer #1 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I agree that Enoch was not a racist, although I thought so at the time he made his "Rivers of Blood" speech in 1968. (In fact he was simply quoting Virgil). He was a highly intelligent man, but not a good communicator. Nevertheless, I think is was a pity he was not taken more seriously by the Political Leaders of the day, as he did have much to offer. Was it Enoch who said that all political careers end in failure?
2006-11-20 11:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by David F 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A brilliant politician. His massive initiative while Minister Of Health to bring in thousands upon thousands of Commonwealth immigrants from the West Indies, India and Pakistan was a superb way of keeping an understaffed health service from going under.
I'm told that he thanked them later on by delivering a particularly poisonous speech alluding to Virgil and the Tiber about how bad the same immigrants have been.
Inbred chav retards have been calling the old sh*t a 'top geezer' ever since
2006-11-20 09:00:12 · answer #3 · answered by mickyrisk 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
lets destroy the myth of enoch powel,long before enoch powel said what he said about rivers of blood ect.immigrants coming in were planted in working class areas, and working folk could see it was biulding up too much working folk everywhere, were giving words of warning in the fifties and early sixties but as everybody knows, these people are egnored untill somebody in politics takes it up, enoch powel took up the working mans coplaint,like he should have done.It was not his own idea, its just that he was paid attention to .instead of being egnored
2006-11-20 07:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by trucker 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Brilliant intellect but lacked basic media communication skills.
Was misquoted in tabloids and demonised by rent-a-mob.
and trendies.
Government should not have been dismissive of his comments .As a result We are now lumbered with a chaotic immigration system which has lost control of population movements and regulation of entry to people who can benefit
society whilst excluding wasters and freeloaders..
2006-11-20 07:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by anthony e 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Farsighted top geezer
2006-11-20 06:49:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
We should have listened. We ceainly have a major problem now
2006-11-20 10:51:59 · answer #7 · answered by George 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He seems to have been somewhat ahead of his time, doesn't he? I wish he had been proved wrong by the passage of time, but it looks like he was right all along.
2006-11-20 06:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by BOOBOO 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I do, we should have listened to that dude more, he was right.
2006-11-20 06:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
well he is slowly being proved right thats for sure.
2006-11-20 06:50:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋