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Originally Posted by spinoza
The man's an idiot. His entire immigration policy as set out in the speech makes no allowance for citizenship rights or human resource management, and is quite frankly appallingly racist.
If you think he would have made a good prime minister then you're off your rocker. |
I'm not off my rocker. I am talking about a specific time and a place. Were you in the UK in the late 1960s?
Powell was certainly not so politically correct that he had to counterbalance his speech by referring to citizenship rights and human resource management and lessen its impact. Powell and Michael Foot were acknowledged as the two greatest parliamentary debaters of that era.
Those were days before the pendulum had swung so far that you can't even fart in the same room as an immigrant without him claiming that you are infringing his civil rights to that good clean air that he has fought so hard to attain and been persecuted against because of it.