Was Enoch Powell right?

[Damp Cave]

Right?

I thought the forum would like my considered view on this. Yes.

[Lucifer Box]

Isn't it the remainder of Virgil's prophecy?

Threaded was there when it was written, so he should know.

More than that, he wrote it. Homer was having a bit of trouble with a particularly bothersome blank verse so Threaded popped back and sorted him out. He thought it would save time if he just wrote the whole thing for him. Mind you, the first draft was a bit boring so it was a stroke of genius for him to nip back a bit further and give Odysseus the idea of the wooden horse to spice the plot up a bit.

Imagine his surprise when it was such a blockbuster smash that Homer commissioned him to write the sequel.

Still, that's our Threaded for you.

[daviejones]

Yes. Next.

[Troll]

Note to Franko et al ...I did not start this thread... but in general the answer is Yes...

HTH

[GreenerGrass]

Peter "MotorMouth" Hain for one.

Oh.

Sorry.

He is one isn't he...

Ah, a fellow Peter "Thought Police" Hain fan. There is a man that needs torturing by the taliban. He's right up there with David Milliband on my list.

Scream "racist!" Peter! Quickly!

[Troll]

Hey!

We haven't had many stab stab stabbity comments recently

Have we all become so injured to polititians that we just accept them?

or are we just giving GB time to settle in?

[Churchill]

Every time things get a little heated racially, Enoch gets dragged into the fray.

Mosside - Rivers of Blood
Toxteth - Rivers of Blood
Oldham - Rivers of Blood
Bradford - Rivers of Blood

etc.

It's all bollox. Why can't people just understand and accept that not all people like other people? Whether it be differences in religion, race, culture, sex.

Take Snaw for example. Nah, just take Snaw, please?

[Bluebird]

Every time things get a little heated racially, Enoch gets dragged into the fray.

Mosside - Rivers of Blood
Toxteth - Rivers of Blood
Oldham - Rivers of Blood
Bradford - Rivers of Blood

etc.

It's all bollox. Why can't people just understand and accept that not all people like other people? Whether it be differences in religion, race, culture, sex.

Take Snaw for example. Nah, just take Snaw, please?

True, but his speech was more than just the "tabloid headline".

[Churchill]

True, but his speech was more than just the "tabloid headline".

I agree. However, his speech came decades before the events I mentioned. It's just that some bright spark journalist keeps trotting out the same old tulipe knowing that it will stir public emotions.

[sasguru]

If Enoch Powell had been listened to, Britain would be a provincial backwater on the edge of Europe, unable to take its place in the global world that's being created whether we like it or not.
If we were well-educated, hi-tech and capable of constant innovation and manufacturing like Japan, perhaps there could be a more homogenous society.
But as a trading nation, with an increasingly poor education system, we have no choice but to be more open than most.

HTH