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Originally Posted by iguanamanc
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?
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No, but that doesn't matter. Powell's immigration policy is wrong. I have no idea what he thought on economic policy, foreign policy or social policy, but if his immigration policy is so short sighted, I don't hold out much hope. Besides, I would have thought that racism should disqualify anyone from holding elected office. It certainly does in my eyes.
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Originally Posted by iguanamanc
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.
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It's not politically correct to refer to citizenship rights or human resource management. It's simply correct. Or do you believe that my right to vote is inferior to yours simply because I'm an immigrant?
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Originally Posted by iguanamanc
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.
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Hyperbole doesn't help.