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Originally Posted by British-Conservatism
Of course Enoch was right. The vast majority of British people know that now. A portrait of the great man himself hangs above my fire place, draped in a Union flag flanked by two flags of St George. He was a genius and the greatest Prime Minister we never had.
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Just thought I would mention that The Late Enoch Powell, seen by many as 'the father' of the anti-EU movement in the UK, opposed the UK having her own nuclear defence force and he was wrong to do so.
He also said when asked to help start and/or support an anti-EU party in the 1970's "Starting new political parties is not the way to solve the problems we have in our country."
Had Enoch Powell helped form and/or become the figurehead for a new anti-EU party in the 1970's after he quit the Heathite-controlled Conservative Party and when he (Mr. Powell) was at the peak of his popularity in the land the anti-EU movement could well be further ahead than it is now and might already have a large and growing group of MPs in the Commons.
Enoch Powell refused to back a new anti-EU party and did not give his backing or support to UKIP when it was formed in 1993/4 (despite the fact that the europhile fool 'Conservative' Major was desperately trying to destroy the ancient British Pound and take the UK into the euro at the time).
Not only did Mr. Powell refuse to back UKIP - he also failed to join the party and did not even take the step of recommending to electors that they vote for the party at a time when the party could well have done with a publicity boost to make progress soon after being formed.