On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 25,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country - and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said, "Racial prejudice won't get you anywhere in this country." So she went home.I can already hear the chorus of execration. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects.This is why to enact legislation of the kind before parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to gunpowder. Powell described what he perceived to be the evolving position of the indigenous population:Powell advocated voluntary re-emigration by "generous grants and assistance" and he mentioned that immigrants had asked him whether it was possible. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it "against discrimination", whether they be leader-writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right up over their heads. Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish.
The "Rivers of Blood" speech was made by British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968, to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. She finds excreta pushed through her letter box. As Mr Heath has put it we will have no "first-class citizens" and "second-class citizens." This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendent should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow-citizen and another or that he should be subjected to imposition as to his reasons and motive for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different.