Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
20th April 2012, 13:47
The Conservative right-winger Enoch Powell made a hard-hitting speech attacking the government's immigration policy.
Addressing a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham, Mr Powell said Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants each year.
He compared it to watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
The MP for Wolverhampton South West called for an immediate reduction in immigration and the implementation of a Conservative policy of "urgent" encouragement of those already in the UK to return home.
He predicted that by the year 2000, up to seven million people living in Britain would be of ethnic descent.
The Census in 2001 showed 4.6 million people living in the UK were from an ethnic minority, or 7.9% of the population.
(From BBC History site)
Addressing a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham, Mr Powell said Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants each year.
He compared it to watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
The MP for Wolverhampton South West called for an immediate reduction in immigration and the implementation of a Conservative policy of "urgent" encouragement of those already in the UK to return home.
He predicted that by the year 2000, up to seven million people living in Britain would be of ethnic descent.
The Census in 2001 showed 4.6 million people living in the UK were from an ethnic minority, or 7.9% of the population.
(From BBC History site)