Posted by mancinblack on Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:31 | #
I’ve always felt that Powell lacked the courage of his convictions. After his “Rivers of Blood” speech there was a huge groundswell of support for Powell across the country. Even Michael Heseltine had said that if Powell had made a leadership challenge, he would have “won by a landslide” and if, as leader of the Conservative party, he had contested the next general election he “would have won a national landslide”. However, Powell did neither. All he succeeded in doing was to give the establishment the opportunity to tell the public, in no uncertain terms, that the immigrants were here to stay. “Rivers of Blood” also poisoned the well of rational political discussion on immigration and immigration control. A well that’s still poisoned today.
Powell was a mainstream politician and as such you would have to be selective in quoting him. For example, he didn’t always ask for a definition of ‘racism’ before answering. Two weeks after his “Rivers of Blood” speech, Powell told the Birmingham Post
What I would take racialist to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one race of mankind to another, and who acts and speaks in that belief. So the answer to your question of whether I am a racialist is ‘No’ - unless perhaps in reverse. I regard many of the peoples in India as being superior in many respects - intellectually for example, and in other respects - to Europeans. Perhaps that is over reacting.
Which must sound like a golden sitar to Ash’s ears.
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Posted by mancinblack on Sat, 15 Aug 2020 20:55 | #
No comment needed, really. An annual event but seemingly peaceful this year. I doubt they’d pass the ‘cricket test’ somehow.
Posted by mancinblack on Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:31 | #
I’ve always felt that Powell lacked the courage of his convictions. After his “Rivers of Blood” speech there was a huge groundswell of support for Powell across the country. Even Michael Heseltine had said that if Powell had made a leadership challenge, he would have “won by a landslide” and if, as leader of the Conservative party, he had contested the next general election he “would have won a national landslide”. However, Powell did neither. All he succeeded in doing was to give the establishment the opportunity to tell the public, in no uncertain terms, that the immigrants were here to stay. “Rivers of Blood” also poisoned the well of rational political discussion on immigration and immigration control. A well that’s still poisoned today.
Powell was a mainstream politician and as such you would have to be selective in quoting him. For example, he didn’t always ask for a definition of ‘racism’ before answering. Two weeks after his “Rivers of Blood” speech, Powell told the Birmingham Post
Which must sound like a golden sitar to Ash’s ears.