Enoch Powell was arguably the most intelligent and sensible MP in history. Although plenty were up in arms about it and still are, his rivers of blood speech was prophetic.

One man's FACT is another man's complete and total horseshit

The only people without freedom of speech in Great Britain are the white British FACT!!!

Hear, hear! Is living in this country really that bad?

I think the bloke was a prick - but it seems to be a crime to be anything but very right wing on this board

P.M.T's comments are hilarious... you just keep telling yourself that mate

I'm not saying the board is racist at all - it just seems the majority of conversations about politics go back to how mint Thatcher was and how Labour have and always will be useless.

I think there's plenty of truth in statements of calling Enoch Powell a racist - I don't know the full history behind him myself (which I'll catch up on) but after watching the documentary on him the other night it certainly gave that impression at times

My remark was for Kibber as he is a student maybe when he starts work and is taxed on every move we make his opinion might change.

But it's what exactly that has to do with that daft old tw@t Enoch that was puzzling me.

Give the likes of that sick horrible bastid an inch and....

During the Second World War, Powell enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, almost a month after returning home. Powell enlisted in the ranks as an Australian. In later years he recorded his promotion from private to lance-corporal in his "Who's Who" entry, on other occasions describing it as a greater promotion than entering the Cabinet. He was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting officer with a Greek proverb. He was commissioned on the General List in 1940, but almost immediately transferred to the Intelligence Corps. In October 1941, as a Lieutenant, Powell was posted to Cairo and transferred back to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was soon promoted Major. He helped mastermind the attack on Rommel's supply lines, as well as the Battle of El Alamein. Powell was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1942. In August 1943 he was posted to Delhi. Though he served in Africa with the Desert Rats, Powell never actually saw combat, serving for most of his military career as a staff officer. It was in Algiers that the seed of Powell's dislike of the United States was planted. After talking with some senior American officials, he became convinced that one of America's main war aims was to destroy the British Empire. Writing home on February 16, 1943, Powell said: "I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were... our terrible enemy, America...."[9]

Powell's conviction of the anti-Britishness of the Americans continued during the war. Powell cut out and retained all his life an article from the Statesman newspaper of November 13, 1943, in which the American Clare Boothe Luce said in a speech that Indian independence would mean that the "USA will really have won the greatest war in the world for democracy".[10]

He desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because "the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore" before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.[11]

Powell began the war as the youngest professor in the Commonwealth; he ended it as the youngest Brigadier in the British army, the only man in the entire war to rise from Private to Brigadier. Powell felt guilty for having survived when many of those he had met during his journey through the ranks had not. When once asked how he would like to be remembered, he at first answered "Others will remember me as they will remember me", but when pressed he replied "I should like to have been killed in the war."[12]

Incidentally; I'd far rather have the 'racist Enoch Powell than the murdering terrorist scumbag and his murdering terrorist wife Nelson and Winnie Mandela. The latter should have been strung up in nick years ago.

the murdering terrorist scumbag and his murdering terrorist wife Nelson and Winnie Mandela. The latter should have been strung up in nick years ago.

So you keep saying

Incidentally; I'd far rather have the 'racist Enoch Powell than the murdering terrorist scumbag and his murdering terrorist wife Nelson and Winnie Mandela. The latter should have been strung up in nick years ago.

The worst thing the South African government did was put him in jail because he was made a martyr, he should have tried to escape like Steve Biko
But what am I saying, it isn't P C and I'll have the namby pamby liberals having ago at me again.
That was the problem with Mr Powell,he just wasn't PC even though 95% of the british public agreed with him he was vilified by the rest of his colleagues in Parliament

Taxation is a certainty of life, all I can do is accept it.