I made reference to this speach not so very long ago Merlin in relation to the recent riots. Enoch Powell was spot on with his own predictions and only doing his job as a member of parliament in voicing the views and experiences of his constituants, this , after all is what he was paid to do. They say that "hindsight is a fools wisdom". It turns out that, in this case, the fools are those who ignored the words and predictions of Mr. Powell and derided his views, and those of his constituants as being hateful and racist. Enoch Powell lived a long and (often) colourful life, (into his nineties I believe), it is just a shame that he is not with us to this day so that he could stick two proverbial fingers up to those who mocked him and badgered him to retract his well publicised views. I think that if his views and predictions had been taken to heed and acted upon positively, we may well be refering to him as LORD Powell, the man who saved Britain from its own generocity. No forward thinking nation, in this day and age , will have a totally indigenous population, but, the people who are indigenous to a country (in this case Great Britain) should, BY FAR, outnumber the ammount of immigrants,(legal OR illegal) and their families. A number of years ago I had an application to emigrate to Canada refused on the grounds that the job that I was offered could be offered to and filled by a native Canadian (had I stuck with the application and appealed I may have succeeded), if the same rules had been in place in this country, and adhered to, I dont think that we would even be having this discussion or refering to a speech controversially made more than 40 years ago and thinking "if only we had listened" and "if only we had acted upon it". I do not think that Enoch Powell was a racist or a bigot, I just think he was a man who suggested that this country should first and formost look after itself and those who are native to it and not fill it with freeloaders and cheap labour from other countries, wether they come from those countries within the British Commonwealth or not. We have long since ceased to be the "land of hope and glory", but does that deter the deluge of unwanted immigrants looking for a better life at the expence of the DWP and the british taxpayer? I think not.