“Rivers of Blood” - British MP, Enoch Powell’s Warning - JUST ONE FOCUS

“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood”.

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The “Rivers of Blood” speech was made by British Member of Parliament (MP) Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968, to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham, England.

“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood”. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal”

The Labour MP Edward Leadbitter said he would refer the speech to the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe spoke of a prima facie case against Powell for incitement. Lady Gaitskell called the speech “cowardly”, and the West Indian cricketer Sir Learie Constantine condemned it.

PM Edward Heath sacked Powell from his post as Shadow Defence Secretary, telling him on the telephone that Sunday evening (it was the last conversation they would have).

The speech caused a political storm, making Powell one of the most talked about and divisive politicians in the country; it led to his controversial dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet by Conservative Party Leader Edward Heath.^[2] According to most accounts, the popularity of Powell’s perspective on immigration may have been a decisive factor in the Conservatives’ surprise victory in the 1970 general election, although he became one of the most persistent opponents of the subsequent Heath government.

Powell gained support from both right-wing and traditionally left-leaning, working-class voters for his anti-immigration stance.

Powell reflected on the speech in an interview in 1977. The interviewer asked him, “what do you see as the likely prospect now? Still the ‘River Tiber foaming with blood’?”:

My prospect is that, politicians of all parties will say “Well Enoch Powell is right, we don’t say that in public but we know it in private, Enoch Powell is right and it will no doubt develop as he says. But it’s better for us to do nothing now, and let it happen perhaps after our time, than to seize the many poisonous nettles which we would have to seize if we were at this stage going to attempt to avert the outcome.” So let it go on until a third of Central London, a third of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, are coloured, until the Civil War comes, let it go on. We won’t be blamed, we’ll either have gone or we’ll slip out from under somehow.

Trevor Phillips wrote in May 2016 on The Daily Telegraph “Rome may not yet be in flames, but I think I can smell the smouldering whilst we hum to the music of liberal self-delusion” by ignoring the effects of mass immigration.

Read full article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech

[Edit: “None is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” Folks, it appears that the communists on all sides of politics have been driving this agenda for more than 5 decades while at the same time continue to threaten anyone who speaks up. Steve, Just One Focus – Truth]

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