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When: 13 Jan 10 13:14
Big Charlie 13 Jan 13:47


ribber 13 Jan 12:03
No city or town in the UK has a majority Asian population - Leicester around 30% in 2006, the majority UK born and therefore not immigrants, and I'll bet that figure hasn't increased dramatically since then.

So a pakistani or an indiian or sri lankan born here is not an asian ?

A dog could be born in a stable but it doesn't make it a horse.

wow.. how did you come up that one.. you must be genius..
By:
baracouda30
When: 13 Jan 10 13:19
I neither love him nor hate him.

Unlike most people on here (I suspect) I have actually seen the man speaking live. He was an excellent orator.

But he was wrong about the black man having the 'whip hand' unless of course I have completely got wrong the ethnic mix of the government, the Commons, the boardrooms of the major industries, media outlets etc. In no way can anyone say that statement was right.

And I'm sure he would shudder when he read the views of the doughnuts who invoke him as some kind of talisman.
By:
casemoney
When: 13 Jan 10 14:35
a modern day nostradamus
By:
baracouda30
When: 13 Jan 10 14:38
Oh yes, Nostradamus...

'one day from the west a king will come and he will die one day and everyone will be sad'

Wow, Nostro, how do you do it?
By:
sparkmaster.
When: 13 Jan 10 14:45
More of a modern day Tony Broke/Cath22 to be fair.
By:
sparkmaster.
When: 13 Jan 10 14:57
I'm just imagining this forum existing on December 31st 1979, and as the clock turned midnight, someone posting on the thread 'Black Men (spreading )': so EnochP, shouldn't we all be under the whip hand by now?
EnochP: The next few weeks will be crucial!
By:
Big Charlie
When: 13 Jan 10 15:17
If somebody said in 1967 that my school would one day have 90% black or asian pupils, and in my home borough, the indigenous whites would account for only 33% of the quarter of a million population, nobody would have believed it.

I'd have laughed my head off snatched his money at odds of 100/1

And done my b0ll0cks.
By:
baracouda30
When: 13 Jan 10 15:57
Plenty of things now would have been unbelievable in 1967 (the internet, mobiles, John Utaka earning 80k a week).

If you think something is 'bad' then say why. Otherwise, it's just meaningless.
By:
zilzal1
When: 13 Jan 10 15:59
Im sure Spock and Kirk had mobiles, i remember seeing them on the telly, and we havent got those things that beam you up yet
By:
Big Charlie
When: 13 Jan 10 16:24
baracouda30 13 Jan 16:57
If you think something is 'bad' then say why. Otherwise, it's just meaningless.

All my reasons are on the threads on politics, as you well know.

Which you read, but don't comment on.

Did you ask your wife/partner is she thought all was rosy in the UK garden with mass immigration?

Did anybody else in a mixed race marriage/partnership ask their wives/partners ?

Of course you didn't, just in case they said 'No, it's not all rosy.'

You couldn't very well post that, could you ?

And you couldn't change it or you'd be lying.

Best just not to ask, eh ?
By:
Live Forever
When: 13 Jan 10 16:47
sparkmaster. 13 Jan 14:11


Enoch Powell's like marmite really, you either love him or you hate him.


I would contend that there is a third option which applies to most of the bellends who praise him on here on a regular basis.

a) Love him
b) Hate him
c) Know absolutely feck all about him but have heard a soundbite from him that fits in with their bull$hit and causes them to ejaculate whenever their tiny little minds register it
By:
evingolis
When: 13 Jan 10 21:08
yes.
but the braindead who've been fed a neo-communist diet for the past 40 years will say no.
the zionists, who are the force behind racial integration/multiculturalism, know the best way to destroy the white christian people- whom they hate with a passion.
By:
sparkmaster.
When: 13 Jan 10 21:10
And yet live alongside with such contentment.
By:
cricketjon
When: 13 Jan 10 21:11
he had no right to say the things he did, swapped parties quicker than shirley williams, if we are not careful all politicians will be like him in 50 years then we will know what a mess is
By:
cricketjon
When: 13 Jan 10 21:12
but i dont hate him, i hate no-one, maybe thats why Im able to disagree with him
By:
orioles
When: 13 Jan 10 21:42
Evingolis is tremendous.

Never has a man been so utterly committed to cocoa puffs :^0
By:
baracouda30
When: 13 Jan 10 22:01
[i]Big Charlie 13 Jan 17:24

Did you ask your wife/partner is she thought all was rosy in the UK garden with mass immigration?

No. I'm on here to give my opinions, not hers.

And what would her response, whatever it was, actually prove? Does a non-white person agreeing with you give you a feeling of validation?
By:
Big Charlie
When: 13 Jan 10 23:20
Her opinion differs to yours then.

I see.
By:
sparkmaster.
When: 13 Jan 10 23:22
Did he say that? Or did you make up an opinion for her?
By:
Big Charlie
When: 13 Jan 10 23:52
He knows.
By:
speedypro
When: 14 Jan 10 00:33
I saw him on a tube platform not knowing who he was. He stood out like a new pin, immaculate and stuck in my mind. Couple of weeks later and he was on telly, then I twigged who he was. Policies aside I can't think of another instance where someone stuck in my memory so clearly.
By:
baracouda30
When: 14 Jan 10 12:51
The term 'mass immigration' is one of those that has slid into the modern lexicon. It's a loaded term, because no-one is supposed to be in favour of it are they?

It's like 'democracy' is a word that can only be 'good', and 'mass immigration' can only be opposed.

For the record, her views (I think) are roughly similar to mine. But like I said, so what?
By:
mittheimp
When: 14 Jan 10 13:02
Very few race issues in the UK compared to other countries. Overall a very tolerant and peaceful place. So id say Enoch was wrong, despite trying to stir it up as a self fulfilling prophecy.
By:
Iwantyourmoney
When: 14 Jan 10 14:15
London Bombing?

Looks like the old boy was correct

:0 :0
By:
sibaroni
When: 14 Jan 10 14:24
Less terrorist deaths in this country in the last decade than the nineties, which had less than the eighties, which had less than the seventies.

Looks like the old boy couldn't have been more wrong.
By:
baracouda30
When: 14 Jan 10 14:33
London Bombing = Enoch was right!!!

What great leap of the imagination (I use the word loosely) led to that conclusion?
Did he predict bombings? Don't remember that bit of his speech.
By:
Brodie
When: 14 Jan 10 14:45
He predicted bloodshed didn't he? Gun crime has gone up a few % since the sixties I reckon. It doesn't have to be restricted to terrorism.
By:
For the benefit of Mr Kite
When: 14 Jan 10 15:00
He didn't predict the war on terror , this is what has led to bloodshed , nothing to do with the black man having the whip hand .
By:
sibaroni
When: 14 Jan 10 15:02
Brodie - last year had the lowest reported homicides in the country for twenty years. HTH.
By:
hammers world cup winners 1966
When: 14 Jan 10 15:06
all iknow is in places where there are a lot of people there are a lot of immigrants ,you do the figures,
By:
Brodie
When: 14 Jan 10 15:10
sibaroni 14 Jan 16:02
Brodie - last year had the lowest reported homicides in the country for twenty years. HTH.


Like I said ,there is more gun crime now than in the sixties. Glad you backed me up.
By:
sibaroni
When: 14 Jan 10 15:11
And thats what Enoch was talking about you reckon? Where do the "smiling Pichaninees" (his words) fit into that?
By:
baracouda30
When: 14 Jan 10 15:14
Looks like we're going to have to agree that for the rest of time, whenever a non-white person does something they shouldn't in this country, some half-wit will claim 'Enoch was right'.
By:
Brodie
When: 14 Jan 10 15:16
Wasn't he saying that mass immigration at the time and the inevitable offspring of these people would cause unrest in this country?
Seering as how gun crime is up, which causes bloodshed, and a large overwhelming % of this is done by blacks, then he's not totally wrong is he?
Just chatting, lets keep it civil.
By:
baracouda30
When: 14 Jan 10 15:19
Seering as how gun crime is up, which causes bloodshed, and a large overwhelming % of this is done by blacks, then he's not totally wrong is he?

You may be right, but where did you get the figures? I can't find any.
By:
sibaroni
When: 14 Jan 10 15:19
Very tenuous. The race riots don't happen any more, at least nothing like as often. Terrorism is down. Homicides over the last twenty years down, and even if he was talking about gun crime (which he wasn't) he was predicting an ever upward trend. It was not a sensible speech then, and looks plain wrong now.
By:
sparkmaster.
When: 14 Jan 10 15:21
There's a distinction between some crimes going up, and rivers of blood and civil unrest and black men dominating the country. One would like to think he was pleased he lived long enough to see how wrong he was.
By:
Prima Donna
When: 14 Jan 10 15:21
Sibaroni,Forgive me for being a little pendantic,but living in England.is it not murder,or must we now have awful American terminology in everything ie Homicides.
By:
sibaroni
When: 14 Jan 10 15:22
Because murder covers murder and manslaughter.
By:
Brodie
When: 14 Jan 10 15:22
Well how do you define rivers of blood then? The reincarnation of Saladin riding wild down oxford street cutting down swathes of people with his migty sword?.
What do you think he meant by rivers of blood?
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