27 JANUARY ENOCH POWELL has once again predicted civil war between whites and blacks in a deliberate attempt to stir up race hatred. Once again he didn't propose any specific attacks on black rights — merely talked airily of measures hitherto dismissed as impracticable or unthinkable'. But as the Daily Telegraph pointed out: 'a nod is as good as a wink'.
Enoch Powell does not stand alone in the dock, however. For all its present self-righteousness, the Daily Telegraph stands there too, along with the rest of the Fleet Street press. Who was it who printed scare headline after scare headline about Asians living in luxury hotels, Here, too, racism is the charge.
the Home Office? He complains that Powell is 'using language bound to cause the inflamed reaction he pretends to deplore'.
legislation which set the seal on immigration control and created a climate of fear and insecurity in the black ghettoes? Who daily pauperises the same black ghettoes through deliberate policies of mass unemployment, wage reductions, and cuts in housing, health and education?
which cynically ignores the vote of its own party conference to abolish all immigration restrictions and support black self-defence? Here, too, racism is the charge.
WEEKLY 1977 No. 184 which have made Powell's task all the easier?
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