Enoch Powell began his speech of April 20th 1968 by using the following words;
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evilsIt saddens me that such an earnest ideal can have little relevance today as those upon whom the title of Statesman can be bestowed seem to be very few in number across our country - given the propensity that many of those now occupying public office have to look after their own welfare first and foremost, they appear to be quite willing to follow the lead of a greater evil, an evil that is instilled by virtue of supreme unchallengeable power and all too evident in those unelected officials now given the right to decide how we conduct our own business and in those for whom the integrity of this country means little.
While this speech was very much of its time, the general thrust of its argument holds true - even though the actors and the stage upon which these matters are being performed have changed somewhat. This country simply cannot continue to accept untrammelled immigration – from whatever source- without consequence.
Placing the RRB (Race Relations Bill) into the historical context, and substituting EU directives and various legislation drafted to embrace the important issue of ‘Human Rights’, the following paragraph appearing near the end of the speech is quite prophetic, given our recent history;
For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. 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. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."I think we have yet to see the full import of that foreboding and, furthermore, the consequences of ignoring this matter in the insane stampede to embrace political correctness above all else will be difficult for every person within this country to ignore – whatever their antecedents.
Read the text of the speech here;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html