View Single Post
Old 18-04-2008, 09:18 PM   #16 (permalink)
Britannist
Uber Member
 
Britannist's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: London
Posts: 22,896
Britannist has some supporters
Default General Election, party, broadcast, Enoch Powell, Labour, Heath, Prime Minister

He even went on television about three days before the 1970 General Election to urge people (in a party political broadcast) to vote for the Heathite Conservative Party (led by a man who had sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet two years before).

I should add that there was nothing in the Conservative 1970 General Election Manifesto about joining the EEC/EU and Enoch Powell went on to more-or-less urge people to vote Labour in the February 1974 General Election as a way of removing europhile Heath as Prime Minister (which, of course, the voters thankfully did although it meant pro-EU Wilson got back in instead but not with the huge Parliamentary majority in which Heath had tried to force the UK into accepting EU 'integration' against its will).

Last edited by Britannist; 18-04-2008 at 09:29 PM.
Britannist is offline   Reply With Quote