Brigadier the Right Honourable Professor John Enoch Powell, British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet.

"We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre."

Rivers of Blood speech, 1968

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« Nous devons être fous, littéralement fous à lier dans ce pays, pour autoriser chaque année l’entrée de 50.000 personnes, qui seront à l’origine de la future augmentation de la population d’origine immigrée. J’ai l’impression de regarder ce pays construire frénétiquement son propre bûcher funéraire. »

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Brigadier the Right Honourable Professor John Enoch Powell, British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet.

"We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre."

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