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Originally Posted by Fitzjames
I cant of course speak for post #41........but #44 was not ironic.
Just a simple statement of (staistical fact).
In a survey commissioned by BBC to mark the anniversary of Powells speech, 40% of those polled admitted to having racist feelings while a smaller number around 20% admitted they were racist.
Now unless the Cafe is a statistical freak......its likely that we are fairly representative.
Ironic? Hardly
Sad? Very
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Apologies for that.
I suppose you are correct about this forum being representative of society. I do not consider myself a racist - and I most certainly do not hold the view that my race is superior to another - although some people reading this thread might think otherwise.
This thread was meant to be a question about how Powell would fare as a Prime Minister in the late 60s, not now when he would be howled down at every possible occasion and would hardly have been allowed his freedom of speech.
The prime purpose of that speech was to open the debate on immigration at that time, as most of his colleagues in parliament were afraid to tackle it. That much has not changed in the ensuing forty years.