Was Enoch Powell a visionary ,did his predictions have validity.?

Answer 1

Yes , God rest his soul , he could see that this country was heading towards inexorable tragedy. He could see what would happen if we did not drastically curtail immigration and most frightening of all is that we have not seen the worst of the alien uprisings

Answer 2

Enoch Powell was not a visionary he saw the inevitable about to happen as many people did at that time.But in doing so he commited political suicide.However, many took his side as they do today in supporting the BNP.But indeed wrong to class these members of society as racists and dangerous.Before 2020 we will witness the Powell doctorine in a more severe way than he put it all those years ago.

Answer 3

Powell was an intelligent man, most definitely not a racist, who expressed concerns, and did not make predictions. He was not a visionary, just a political analyst.

Sadly, the racists love to misrepresent him and claim him as one of their own.

In any case, towards the end of his political career his intellectual powers declined and, having rejected the Conservative Party, and advised people to vote Labour, he ended up reinforcing the views of 'loyalist' bigots in the Ulster Unionists.

Racists like to say we have 'rivers of blood' already, but that's just wishful thinking on the part of the BNP and its friends. Most of us rub along fairly well most of the time, and the race of those we deal with is only an issue for the ignorant.

Answer 4

Oooh! Controversial! Old Enoch had one of the finest intellects of his generation - not even his enemies denied him that.
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...thanking them later on by delivering a particularly poisonous speech alluding to Virgil and the Tiber about how bad the same immigrants have been.
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...1968 - 'The Swinging Sixties', no less!
But after 7/7 (2005) he could be viewed as having had a unique prophetic insight...by the usual tabloids who pamper to the socio-economic C2DE's. who see Jeremy Kyle as 'God in waiting' and EastEnders as the most clearest way in which to live their lives.
It's just a damned shame the extreme left...and extreme right misrepresent him.

Answer 5

If you're talking about "Rivers of Blood", then no, most ppl of all races get along alright.

It would not be that hard to inflame the situation and create divisions - like the BNP do.

He might yet be proved right - if conditions in much of Sub-Saharan Africa don;t improve, then there is a real prospect of resource conflicts and us feeling the fallout form that.
Such a mass migration would be different from Polish workers arriving, and a lot more challenging.

Answer 6

He definitely had a point. With the massive unsustainable influx of immigrants coming into the UK now I can only see a civil war on the horizon.

Answer 7

Of course. Were not the streets running with blood during the tube bombings.... (or figuratively)

Look, its very unfashionable in this country to say anything in the least bit inflammatory or unpolitically correct.

There are certain religious factions, currently harboured and indeed sanctioned in this country, who mean nothing but harm to the those offering hospitality.

Those people should be weeded out and ejected.

Answer 8

No and no.

Yes, there is crime that people from abroad and those descended from them are responsible for. But most immigrants and the descendents are law abiding people.

Look at the NHS and you will see how many people work there who are either immigrants, or are decended from them. Look how many lives they are saving. You will see that more lives are saved, far more than have been lost through immigration.

Also, remember that the Krays were not immigrants, nor was Harold Shipman (the worlds most prolific serial killer), Myra Hindley was not an immigrant either. All these people are 'true brits' who have killed and are famous for it. In addition, terrorism from the white population has killed far more than terrorism from Muslims. Or do people here forget the IRA?

Crime is bad, no matter who is behing it. But hatred is bad as well. No country every made itself better through hatred. Lets make the UK an even better place, and that means working together.

Answer 9

yes he was, just like all visionaries and sueth sayers including russel grant he was equally full of crap. when he was rumbled as an out and out bigot he had nowhere else to go but to the north of ireland. the unionists/loyalists took to him like hitler walking among neo-nazis untill they realized he didnt advocate violence, an advocate of free speech indeed but not somebody with the guts for violence.

Answer 10

no, cos me and my 8 children are here to stay for good