On this day 20th April 1968

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On this day 20th April 1968

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Enoch Powell's Rivers Of Blood Speech - YouTube

ON THIS DAY: 1968 - The Conservative right-winger, Enoch Powell, made a hard-hitting speech attacking the government's immigration policy. 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. "Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood."
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. R.L. Binyon
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