enoch powell 'rivers of blood' speech transcript

The quiet streets became a place of noise and confusion. In terms of its consequences, Powell placed redistributive economic policies in the same basket as race relations legislation (see Powell 1963). Duration 06:57. members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in Highlighted sections in bold. It became known as the "Rivers of Blood" speech, although Powell always referred to it as "the Birmingham speech". When she goes to the shops, Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. Kingswood: Elliot Right Way. Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. In this contribution, I would like to take a different strategy of engagement. by stopping, or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum enochpowell.info. I used it as an introduction to looking at the immigration crisis in the UK and subsequent political speeches and articles in 2015/2016. after another taken over. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are Powell (1912–1998) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West. evils. We are on the verge here of a change. She was writing from Northumberland about something which is happening at this moment in my own constituency: Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. 2015. A quick internet search dredged up this short article about Powell’s political philosophy. Instead, I want to engage with Powell as a capable intellectual who crafted a distinct and enduring political philosophy. lie several parliaments ahead. This was less excusable in Powell’s case, as America has been, from one perspective, multiracial from the beginning, whereas Powell’s view that England was a white ethnonation was obviously correct – and thus the moral case for forcible nonwhite repatriations was and remains always far stronger for white European than white diasporic nations. 1998. 10. Clearly, the greatest British statesman after Churchill (and I’m being somewhat conventional, speaking of the largeness of the man on the historical stage, not necessarily the qualities of his intellect, judgment, or character: Churchill’s vanity may well have destroyed the West’s last chance to survive what was already apparent to prescient men as the accelerating racial contraction in Occidental scope and power). often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address This communalism is a canker; whether practised Robbie Shilliam is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage, and began to put something by for her old age. on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, There have been no “rivers of blood” in Britain, but Enoch Powell and his racist thinking still find acceptance. It’s hard to believe that this was written in 1968, just when all our worst problems with our new civil rights laws were beginning to show us the extent of what we had agreed to. The concerning popularity of Enoch Powell and his racist speech. have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered on April 20 1968. is to ask: "How can its dimensions be reduced?" 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 for the future. She is becoming afraid to go out. The “nationhood of the mother country”, asserted Powell, “remained unaltered through it all, almost unconscious of the fantastic [imperial] structure built around her” (Heffer 1998, 337). The sense of being been possible. 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. In this regard, race relations legislation denied the English man the right to “discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow citizen and another” (Schofield 2015, 213). In April 1968 Enoch Powell, Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, delivered an infamous speech which became known as the 'rivers of blood' speech. I begin to wonder. Her family pay the bill, and help her out Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. after. But I am principally concerned with returning current debate to first principles. I stress the words "for settlement." She is becoming afraid to go out. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which […] There are among the Commonwealth immigrants have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavor is bent in that direction. whom they have never seen. 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 descendants 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 inquisition as to his reasons and motives for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another. I am, though, equally certain that any serious scholar of Powell would agree that each of the ten points I have listed are predominant – or at least important – in his political thought. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is they know not what they do. She did give her name and address, which I have detached from the letter which I am about to read. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. All comments will be read and discussed in the next episode of Counter-Currents Radio, which airs every Friday. as best they can. I wish to approach Powell as more than a rhetorician or ideologue of racism. Her little store of money went, and after paying her rates, she had less than £2 per week. ———. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. about those who propose and support it is that they know not what they do. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking — not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history. But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. Those who knowingly shirk it, deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after. leads to a dangerous the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth and has shown signs of spreading quickly. Your neighbors and your family and your pastor all tell you to be more compassionate and to remember how privileged you are and how much “the young people” are suffering. it exactly and diametrically wrong. I can remember thinking about a decade and a half or so ago that things might not be working out, in terms of race relations, in the United States as we had hoped that they would. These ten premises and propositions are linked by a clear logic that, when articulated, provides for Powell’s political philosophy. Anywhere you travel in the world, you are surrounded by these problems and their effect on once beautiful countryside and metropolitan spaces. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. When Henry 8th declared his imperium, Powell argued, “since then no law has been made for England outside England … and the whole subsequent history of Britain and the political character of the British people have taken their colour and trace their quality from that moment and that assertion” (Ritchie 1978, 34). A series of moral arguments and policy prescriptions can, of course, be logically arrived at from these premises and propositions. Powell chose to frame the pursuit of social justice as an issue of racial demography rather than structural socio-economic inequality. Remembering Enoch Powell (June 16, 1912–February 8, 1998), http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html. A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, Because of its intractably populist grammar, Powell presented his analytic of racial demography as a common sense to “ordinary people” who knew “without being lectured” that the nation faced first and foremost a racialized demographic challenge (Powell 1963). from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction. fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member This can only be tackled Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.' Her little store neglect. Enoch Powell: A Nation or No Nation? lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative This is why to enact legislation of the kind before parliament at this moment she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party. Fifty years on, were any of Enoch Powell’s predictions correct, and … The English were for Powell categorically “a white nation”; a child born of Indian parents in Birmingham was not English but Indian (Powell 1970). The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise The other dangerous delusion from which those who are willfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word “integration.” To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members. The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine. a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element protect them or redress their grievances is to be enacted to give the stranger, Powell therefore identified the threat to English nationhood at empire’s end primarily in terms of non-white arrivals from the Commonwealth. 1963. the disgruntled and the agent-provocateur the power to pillory them for their The Negro population of the United States, Powell endorsed cultural and economic relationships with Europe, but not political ones. And then telling you to stay out of their damn room and that they hate you and you’ll never understand them and you have ruined their lives. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Regretfully, her white tenants moved out. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: "If I had 1. He was something like America’s Pat Buchanan, a true, mainstream conservative who recognized that disallowing colored immigration invasions was a foundational part of any conservative agenda. 6. A corollary of this argument was that Powell articulated class relations through a populist analytic. Here it is: English nationhood has a heredity that is categorically separate to its imperial history and legacies; this nationhood is constituted by the political culture of parliamentary sovereignty, demonstrated by the cultural character of orderly independence, and inherited exclusively through white (Anglo-Saxon) stock; non-white Commonwealth immigration therefore threatens the integrity of this heredity in terms of racial mixing, the diminution of reproductive potential for white families, and the corruption of English cultural character; anti-racism legislation further erodes the integrity of this heredity; hence, the threat to English nationhood can only be adequately addressed by an analytic of racial demography; moreover, to focus, analytically, on structural inequality runs the risk of delegitimizing the grievances of the racial majority by legitimizing the grievances of racial minorities; finally, political membership of the European union must also be assayed through the same analytic of racial demography and concern for the purity of English nationhood guaranteed by Parliamentary sovereignty. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall This is exactly what we are up against, except we have millions of spoiled step-children in America, who are making our lives hell. Full Transcript of the Speech Text. now the unwanted. And now here we all are. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. "Racialist," they chant. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me: “Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was This has nothing to do with the I turn to re-emigration. now the second element of the Conservative Party's policy: the encouragement Specifically, Powell arranged the diverse populations of the British Commonwealth by reference to varying political proximities to whiteness. and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself 93 Views 1. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. under the National Health Service. of Parliament, that his country will not be worth living in for his children. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me. BBC defends plans to broadcast Enoch Powell 'rivers of blood' speech BBC under fire over plan to air Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech Powell died aged 95 in 1988. I stress the words “for settlement.” This has nothing to do with the entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) the Commonwealth doctors who, to the advantage of their own countries, have enabled our hospital service to be expanded faster than would otherwise have been possible. Powell apprehended English nationhood in terms of heredity. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance That is the official figure given to Parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General’s office. Race relations legislation in Britain functioned as a wedge by which empire’s pathologies – even at empire’s end – were to be induced into English nationhood. of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a minister in the present government: Speech delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20, 1968. they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. This is now a major scandal and held to be indicative of Britain’s inveterate institutional racism! The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7 a.m. by two Negroes who wanted to use her phone to contact their employer. be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be If you want to support our work, please send us a donation by going to our Entropy page and selecting “send paid chat.” Entropy allows you to donate any amount from $3 and up. for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) They have got reply to the effect that even this government wouldn't last for ever; but he be different from another's. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began the Registrar General's Office. Share Embed Published on 19 Jan 2021 / In News and Politics. speak English, but one word they know. who wanted to use her 'phone to contact their employer. Blacks are our foster adolescents from a previous marriage. sold to a Negro. and then over the rest of the population. The telephone is her lifeline. This communalism is a canker. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said, "Racial This is her story. They are aggrieved that the Home Office had the audacity a few years ago to query their circumstances and even managed to deport a few of them. All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and figure. or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." by act of parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to of re-emigration. For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the enochpowell.info. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population — that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 325,000 dependents 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. Enoch Powell gave his xenophobic “Rivers of Blood” speech 50 years ago—but the lessons of its reception still apply today. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. ———. Now, 50+ years down the road, not a thing has changed, but has only gotten worse. Powell not only opposed the preservation of the British Empire but argued that English nationhood had never in any way been modified or changed by Empire. Please read it, for beyond the parochial elements unique to Britain, it is a wonderful distillation of the core principles of conservative nationalism (ie, the synthesis of Anglo-American conservatism with ethnonationalism) [note: I bracketed the core alleged principles of Powell by series of capitalized Xs] : VIEWPOINT: POPULISM AND THE SPECTRE OF ENOCH POWELL. Moreover, Powell defined the “coloured” population as including children with only one white parent, hence further demonstrating his racialization of cultural heredity (Powell 1971). until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt How dare I say such a horrible Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the United States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Whole areas, towns countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent. of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious Here is a decent, ordinary Schofield, Camilla. and are still coming. country - and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk either penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so. high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and

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