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Originally Posted by rjt
for too long Powell's views have just been dismissed.....
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It is a pity that The Late Enoch Powell was against the UK having nuclear weapons.
It is also a shame he spoke against a new party being set up to fight the EEC/EU (he once claimed "the problems we have in our country will not be solved by starting new political parties"). He failed to back UKIP when it set was set up in 1993/4 despite the fact that europhile 'Conservative' Major was trying to force the UK into the euro at the time (with Labour and the Liberal 'Democrats' backing the european single currency then - just as they both do now).
As someone pointed out in another thread - Enoch Powell advised people to vote Conservative (1970). And then he left that party (1974) turning up six months later as a candidate for the Ulster Unionist Party (a new party compared to the Conservatives and Labour - new parties being the very thing that he had spoken against).
His work in defending the Union of Northern Ireland with Great Britain was excellent, of course. But he was wrong not to back UKIP given that Major and the europhiles in the Conservative Party were out to destroy our Pound in the period when UKIP was set up.