Enoch Powell Responds to Being Called A Racist | The Dick Cavett Show
Live from London, British politician Enoch Powell responds to reports that claim him to be a racist.
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Date aired - May 14th, 1971 - Enoch Powell and Jonathan Miller
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Why continue to give this bigot a platform
Ahead of his time
@@peterthonton7695 ABSOLUTELY he could see what the TRAITOR GOVERMENTS WOULD DO TO THIS COUNTRY, RIP ENOCH POWELL. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Who, Dick Cavett? You can't mean Powell who was obviously not. He was a relic of victorian imperialism.
@@sgw8903 he was spot on
Imagine being able to have civilized discourse on such a controversial subject today ? And without interruption. We sure have gone backwards in so many ways.
They wont let you
Ironic that you hold such uncivilised views to start with
@@epicjaquisemusic4462 I don’t believe anyone has expressed a view. Only pointed out that discourse can be polite on even the most unpleasant subject. There’s no irony there.
@@paulangeloff400 then what’s the point about talking about “civilised discourse” on a video about Enoch Powell and a comment section filled with reactionary nationalists who want a white ethnostate, clearly, you hold similar views to Powell, which of course are uncivilised, may Jesus forgive you on the day of judgement for your beliefs and actions
@@epicjaquisemusic4462 please lay out exactly which of Powell’s views on mass immigration are “uncivilized”. As for me I am an immigrant and also the son of an immigrant in my native country so if I were you I wouldn’t presume to know my personal thoughts. People like you are at the very heart of what I was talking about. Clearly unwilling to listen to or tolerate a view that doesn’t line up with your own.
Everything Powell has said has come to pass, and the worst thing is. It’s getting worse than anything he could’ve imagined!!
The worst thing is many, many people seem not to care. Or EVEN worse, they celebrate it!
Totally agree.. should have listened to him!
too true kris
Yep, that's the racist view alright.
@@colinmcmb nothing racist about saying multiculturalism is a failed endeavour. Nothing about saying certain parts of Birmingham and London and many other cities in the uk you could mistake for being in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of people who have no interest in assimilating into our society’s or even learning our language, it’s clearly a massive problem and it needs to be challenged!!
Imagine being able to actually sit down like this in 2024 and have such a civil conversation?
Civility is easy when you know how. Trouble is Britain (pro-rata) is worse than most other so called civilised societies! You could say we are generations behind the curve with a widening gap between rationale and irrational behaviour. Racism and racial prejudice make for uncomfortable bedfellows!
be in Belmarsh I expect..
Probably the most lied about man in recent British history. A politician who actually cared for his country and his constituents. Rest in peace, sir.
Absolutely, a highly intelligent man who had integrity, that is why he was so disliked, he showed up Heath in his true colours.
He sure wouldn't be resting in peace if he could see the state of the country now !
Jeremy Corbyn more recently also
@@Stanwellf He will be watching with baited breath knowing that what he predicted is going to happen and soon
Oswald Mosley
His point about immigrants having no affinity with the British society has never been more poignant than today.
Some of those immigrants back then had family members who had served in the British Army in various wars for hundreds of years.
@@aundraeblackwell2949 That doesn't mean that these immigrants are going to culturally assimilate. Very large empires throughout history used very diverse personnel to fight their wars purely because they expanded and conquered very different human groups.
@mikespearwood3914 Some of those immigrants ancestors are from England and represented the empire overseas.
Great Britain told the peoples of the countries they colonised that Britain was now their homeland, not their place of birth. Those thus colonised cannot be criticised for returning 'home', which they have done in their tens of millions. In the decades since, those immigrants have changed the fabric of Great Britain, and it's up to those who live there to determine how that's all worked out for them.
The British Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and a few more cabinet ministers are children of immigrants. Enoch Powell lost his war against immigrants long time ago.
Went from Private to youngest Brigadier General ever, predicted exactly what is happening now, the best Prime Minister this country never had. Genius.
Was a Professor of the Classics AND went from Private to Brigadier General all by the age of 31 !!! However the curse of being a person with such extraordinary intelligence is that he is surrounded by fools.
Totally agree
He was never prime minister unfortunately. Maybe things would have been different if he was.
Mosley said it 1959, nearly 10 years before Powell
One word only simply brilliant
Enoch was 100% correct. Look at the state the UK is in right now
There's a terrible servile attitude throughout British life today where racism is tolerable if it's directed toward white people. We are being bombarded with anti-white propaganda in a country of 82% white people.
You are free to leave.
@@guywilletts2804 and why must they leave? It is comments like these that only create strife and disunity.
@@guywilletts2804 If a burglar breaks into your house tonight, remember - you are free to leave.
it is actually very hard to leave the UK in a stable transition without taking huge risks and your options are very limited by the chance that most will only speak English. @@guywilletts2804
When the West wants to protect its culture it’s called racist, but that charge is never made about cultures in the Middle East or Asia. It’s completely hypocritical.
100 % true
Yes exactly
It’s intentional. It’s a communist tactic to destroy the nation state
I am Nigerian and I agree. We should all protect our cultures and not be guilt tripped about it. I want a world where I can travel to Japan and experience Japanese culture or to London and experience its indigenous culture. All this globalist mixing is ultimately destructive
@@fanvalryinc6527 Well said.
A good man who was proven correct on every level
Wasn't he just!
He is a made racist.
And then some,
Spot on
@@nigeldalrymple4099 Isn't he just.
Enoch Powell makes more sense everyday, he knew his political career was over the minute he made his infamous speech and he still made it, I cannot think of a political figure today making that speech, this to me makes him a British hero
Get better heroes 🤡
@@robertstraw9881 Get better informed…☠️
@@obsolise8063 🤣 sure mate 👍
@@robertstraw9881You've clearly demonstrated your ignorance in very few words.
@@robertstraw9881was Powell wrong?
I miss the times when people could speak the truth without censorship or the fear of being cancelled
Those who opposed Enoch Powell and still oppose his views should ask themselves; We had two world wars with millions of lives and pounds wasted while defending these isles from invasion. Then, for reasons I still don't understand, we invited foreign people and powers to just simply apply politely and walk in instead. We now have entire sections of Britain which are populated and even wholly managed by foreign forces, sections of which the indigenous people would not dare walk into in their own country. Why was this situation ever allowed to even be promoted let alone become a reality.
What times are these? Enoch Powell was fired for what he said. In general, that time period involved a lot of cancellations, particularly of anyone suspected of being a communist, where they were blacklisted from working and pursued by secret services. We're better off today where "cancellation" where just means "people don't like me on the internet".
who the fuk are you telling me wat the fuk to say
there is no law its fake
not the truth
By far the most important aspect of this clip is that the interviewer asks a question and the interviewee is allowed to answer it without interruption. As such, the listener is informed. Our modern media no longer allows its audience to be informed. It has chosen to be our instructor.
Dick Cavett carries a rare skill in television interviewing - fully listening to his guest's responses and allowing his audience to do the same.
Society misses this, an actual interview on TV without any interruptions and discussing controversial topics is proof it can be done!
you mean, Proof it Could be done
@@timothysmith160 No, I mean is proof it can be done!
i certainly hope so! @@campbell3711
Now he would be shouted down by someone like that Izzard bloke.
He was focused on adding context to his much maligned remarks, which is definitely missing nowadays, which the interviewer didn’t cut short. Today’s interviewers seek conflict and emotional triggers to captivate viewers, think Morgan. Powell displays the pedigree that the Conservatives no longer possess.
He was a league above any current politician in the UK. Imagine our elites speaking so well today...
what a racist?
@@georget3953From the everyone I don't like is a racist catalogue of leftoid slurs.
People like Sunak and his entire cabinet have never been real adults in a real, adult world!!They live, one and all, in a world of theory!!!
A Mosleyite is a league above ? you got a strange set of standards. Just because somebody has a fancy accent does not mean that once you filter out the bullshit his main point is that if you are not British ethnically you should not be British.
@georget3953 people like you just shouting "racist" never elaborate on their comment. Now it is well know and proven that he wasn't a racist, all of the people like you who are probably a part of the violent, lying far left simply make yourselves look like fools.
R.I.P Enoch Powell, you were totally right about what was to come.
Unfortunately...
A very clever man who is sorely missed amongst the joke of a government we have now.
I'm way up North in a small town in England and when I was on a bus recently, even here 50% of the other passengers were Indian/Pakistani - and not one of them was speaking English throughout the journey.
Truer words were never spoken but no-one would listen to the man look at our joke of a "" government now "" r.i.p Mr powell sadly missed
And now much, if not most, of the top government positions in the UK are increasingly filled by foreigners. London may never have an actual ENGLISH Mayor again. Britain is in the midst of a foreign invasion, aided and abetted by traitors in its own government and institutions. The British people - the real ones - had better wake up soon.
Clever😅
@@user-dd2hj6ye5n I bet you are young. And I equally bet that, if you remember how you feel now, in the future, you'll agree with this man. Remember this until you are old.
Love how the audience is just listening, no producer telling them to clap or boo every 20 seconds
It's usually some kind of warm-up guy who is telling people to clap and shout rather than the producers.
When people were allowed to react for themselves, it seems so so far away.... Damn shame.
In America if they clap for trump there told to stay quiet lol
They couldn't afford that much production on this off-brand show that features demagogues.
@@aldorfc220false
This man was way ahead of his time. He saw it coming.
He saw what ?
Are you blind or young? Don`t you know we used to have a society? @@hudson7354
@@hudson7354keep taking the boosters, you will be fine.
@@hudson7354The British people becoming second class citizens in our own country... Look at London, Rotheram, Gillingham, Bradford, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Leeds... *Spot the white man*
@@hudson7354the increase in crime caused by importing people from uncivilised societies
Enoch Powell. This mans predictions back then were absolutely spot on. No better politician since his time.
Don't be a bloody fool, I bet you voted Brexit.
Tony Benn was head and shoulders above him and the rest
He should have been our Prime Minister.
@@geraintevans1721😅😅😅😅😅
His predictions unfortunately came true for me.
A few decades later... Pakistani mayor of Londonistan, Indian PM of England, half Indian of Ireland and Pakistani of Scotland. What a great future!
as long as they're not muslim then yes it is. Powell is so close to the answer but unfortunately, let his racism blind him to the actual problem.
@vondas1480 he was not racist just correct
You were too busy worrying about Caribbean people who spoke English, similar culture and same religion that you ignored all the other groups because they have more Eurocentric features, but not mentality 🤣
You English are just thick as owt. Hahahahaha
Does it matter what background they are from ? Theresa May, Cameron, Boris, all white elitist upper class toffs with a posh accent and all just as clueless if not worse than those you have mentioned. Judge people on their actions and policies, everything else is irrelevant. Edit - no one is worse than Khan ill give you that but Ken livingstone was equally bad too.
We need men like him back in England, it’s not racist to put your country first.
We have one - Douglas Murray
@@Puppy-ew4beHe is very good.
So what if it is? If that’s what is needed to save our country and culture so be it.
Tell me you're racist without saying you're racist.
@@CrissyCrissyCrisOh dear. There's always one 🙄
Allowing someone to actually answer a question is a quality cemented in history.
Amazing isn’t it? Actual dialogue
This only works if the person answering actually answers. Our politicians are trained to dodge questions and bluff and lie. If you look at a boris johnson interview he often tries to fill the space with so many words and sound even if it's barely relevant. Our interviewees have to jump in to stop them from talking shite and getting away with it or they'll just bluff some irrelevant crap and then walk off
@@christianreyes3140 ah be quiet
@@christianreyes3140 You like to call someone racist. It doesn`t mean a thing.
I was feeling something is very different in the interview and couldn't put my finger on it. You nailed it Even though I don't agree with him, it is such a breath air to actually let people talk
While the subject matter is controversial and the issues too complex for a short social media comment, what instantly stands out here is how well informed and willing to articulate Mr Powell is. Contrast this with todays politicians who appear to know nothing and say even less, seemingly single-minded in their quest to advance their own estate.
He was an intellectual who was smarter than everyone else he studied history and knew what happens when people move to another country and the consequences
His biography is worth a look. He was s genius.
Eveything he said has happend..... EVERYTHING 😢
Rivers of blood...... God forbid 🇬🇧😭
Well said mr powel ,our country today is a shambles an utter disgrace .😮
India is a shambles, Palestine is a shambles, Africa is a shamble..the Brits left shambles in its wake
Boohoo 😭 People of different ethnicities (yes, including even white people 😁) ain’t going nowhere and will keep coming here. Deal with it, snowflake 🤡
Thanks to the Cons
@@missizaskunengland would be in the gutter no matter who runs it, politics is a weak man's mind game.
The political system is a con@@missizaskun
We all knew he was trying to tell us and he has been proved right.
Make TV Great Again
@@PortlandEast It was admirable of Dick Cavett to give a man the chance to speak his mind and his beliefs without interruption or bias at a time when Enoch Powell was somewhat outcast even by his own party.
We did not listen period.
If only people listened to him all those years ago. Patriotism is not racist, never will be
An overwhelming majority of the population did, and also agreed. It was the politicians, scared of losing their jobs, credibility, and hoping the problem would go way, that did not.
We listened to him and heard his hate.
@@gavincampbell6595 Another who uses the word "we". Don't speak for me, and the overwhelming majority of ordinary working people back then who backed Powell, and I won't speck for you, son.
@@maxwellfan55 You can’t control what I write. We listened, we heard hate. I used the word “we” and there is nothing you can do about it.
@@maxwellfan55 And if such an alleged overwhelming majority supported Powell, then he’d’ve become prime minister. Powell didn’t become prime minister. Therefore there was not such an overwhelming majority supporting Powell.
It’s a blessing for him that he isn’t around to witness what he so eloquently prophesied.
This man was not racist, what he is talking about what was going to happen in the future. How right he was.
In fact he underestimated the danger we were in
Well, he didn’t foresee it costing us over a hundred billion squid to half complete a railway line. I don’t think even George Orwell could have predicted such levels of corruption in the UK. But here we are. Illegal immigrants are a problem, but not THE problem.
In the future? It's already happening.
@@jamessherlock6912The interview is from 1971, so 2023 would have been the future then wouldn't it?
OMG, that was truly inspired talk - his assertions were certainly prophetic and when he clearly seats the concept of racism as an American import a lot of insight into the divisions of today fall in place.
He was absolutely correct, we are now living in the exact situation he described
If anything, he underestimated the situation.
Do you blame foreigners for everything wrong on this country? Most things?
Don’t be stupid. If the price of many others being happy is your frustration, then so be it.
@@NadimAJBritain and Netherlands are beautiful countries worth protecting Riots shouldn't be happening USA, Canada has more room
@@NadimAJ Do you deny obvious truth? There are entire cities in the UK with no british people.
WHAT A MAN,ONE COULD NOT SIT IN AWE WITHOUT REALISING THE GIFT OF THIS STATESMANS ABILITY TO DEBATE ON SUCH A HIGH LEVEL OF INTELLECT, AND SPEECH. THINGS NOW OF A DIFFERENT EPOCH, WHEN YOU COULD ACTUALLY BELIEVE ,AND BETTER STILL UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS SAYING. A HIGHLY EDUCATED MAN. A GREAT ORATOR THAT NEVER LOST HIS CHARISMATIC COOL.
How so true this man said , he predicted this would happen, our corrupt politicians are to blame for what we are now living in.
He wasn’t a racist man, he was a man who understood races. Very very clever human being.
he was racist he wanted black people to go back where they came from, and the children they had with white women he wanted those kids to leave.
What is a race?
Is a labrador the same as a poodle? @@richardjhannah
@@derekwatson7037 Of course it is, you Banana!
And you think a banana is the same as a human. We are doomed.@@richardjhannah
It is probably a blessing that Enoch is no longer around to see the full decline of the country he loved and to have his predictions become 100% true only to be 100% worse than he could ever have imagined.
It would be a massive step down to hear him on TV everyday saying "I told you so..."
@jayseabie215 The full decline of the what??? Shut up, just shut up 🙄 England still has law&order, people can still get jobs, you can still use transport and so on. I agree that mass immigration is a problem(and I'm an immigrant) but you can't say that England has gone worse, it hasn't! Think before you speak, you humpty numpty! 🤨
He was so right
i mean the decline has been mandated by the conservatives, his own party.
Let's look at the facts shall we? - WW1 (started by white folk) 40 million dead. - WW2 (started by white folk) 38 million dead. - Vietnam War (started by white folk) - Iraq War (started by white folk) 450,000 dead - Ukraine War (started by white folk) 400,000 dead and counting! But you idiot racists are right let's all panic about some economic migrants not paying taxes 🤦♀️
"We know now that unless some drastic change happens, large parts of many of our cities will by the beginning of the next century be occupied by a populace which has nothing in common with the people of this country." -- Enoch Powell, 1971. He was completely correct. London is an British city in name only.
Enoch was right. We are getting to a stage where the foreigners are wagging the tail of the dog. The Muslims in particular just do not want to integrate and wish to impose their standards onto the majority.
London is a reflection of many, many great cultures from all around the world. And that is one of the things that makes it a magnificent city.
@@wfifa199😂 You mean having no actual identity? Or becoming Pakistani Islamic?
@@wfifa199You mean having no identity? Or becoming Pakistani/ South Asian? What’s the difference now?
@@wfifa199Many Western cities are becoming London why is it anything more special?
A rare thing indeed..a politician with integrity..we need another like him
His comment on cities in the next century having no affiliation with great British living has been proven correct
no they haven't , stop lying.
@@yetidodger6650 You're lying to yourself lad!
Of course it hasnt
@@yetidodger6650 bet you're one of the many non racists that have fled the cities to live in rural uk
Has patently
It’s unbelievable how ahead of his time he was. He could see everything coming.
Our very own prophet ... who actually gets things exactly right!!
He did not get any predictions correct. The black man wasnot waving the whip over the white man at the start if the 21st century, like he said and that is still not correct now. But it us easy to pretend he was right so as to push your racist agenda
It’s easy to suggest that something might continue when it’s already begun
he'd be turning in his grave now!
@@davidcurrie8564more like laughing up his sleeve.
The problem is way worse than Enoch could have ever imagined
To rite.
A man of great insight who saw the big problems we are going through now way back in the day. No one took him seriously, no one was prepared to prevent future problems as a result of immigration.
Take note of all the advertising you see in the media today and see how the main characters are non-white. People are being taught that to be white makes us secondary citizens. There needs to be a reversal of this entire anti-white campaign in our own nation. We, the majority, need to correct this and bring this servile surrender to an end.
Dick Cavett was in a different league to modern day interviewers. He asked Powell a question and allowed him to answer in the way he wished. Today, he'd be interrupted every 20 seconds
@Spike Ragesonagain Russell Brand is an utter clown...
Especially by the likes of Piers head up his arse Morgan.
*For TRUTH, PUNCH MY Face!!!*
Very true, and it’s a result of the social media “look at me” era that we now find ourselves in. Everyone has to be seen over others and has to be the most important person in the room. We live amongst self promoting narcissists who are incapable of letting others speak.
its worse, they wont come on tv
I wish he was still around today to see how right he was. This man was ahead of his time.
A man that we should have listened to all those years ago.
A champion of Europe and his own people. May he rest in Peace. Respect
Enoch was not racist,he was a patriot
I can't imagine such a civil, intelligent discourse happening today. Can you imagine Enoch Powell being interviewed on 'The View'?
Farage gets plenty of air time, he's a racist old twat too.
It would be like trying to have a conversation with children on the view
By interviewed do you mean bullied ridiculed and called offensive names?
Enoch Powell was a terrible evil man, you don't want to be like him
With those harridons? No way!😂
As an Irishman, can't believe that there are no Englishmen like Enoch anymore. Punctual, pragmatic, charismatic and a patriot. Our neighbours have truly fallen victim to the current sad state of current British politics and media. Bring back the classical stiff Englishmen, I say!
Real English men were turned into transwomen. There are no men in England anymore. It's the women who wears the trousers of the house. 😂
I should imagine there are, but are not allowed to express such views. I worry about us all in Britain and Ireland. Although we have had our differences, I never thought of the Irish people as enemies. Now, with what we have in England, and Ireland too…..I’m afraid of what is to become of us all. Unless something is done. 🌹
Everybody who warns of these issues is cancelled. Nigel Farage is the closest thing we have to Powell today and look what they've done to him.
Punctual? You mean he was on time for the interview? Regretably there are still many arseholes of his type around today.
It's such a sorry state of affairs here in Britain today. Nobody will stand up, nobody will speak out and nothing will be done. Years of being told we should be accepting of others whilst being told we should be ashamed of our own culture and history. Years of being told the Union Jack represents colonialism whilst being encouraged to fly the flags others, years of having to accept the colonisation of our towns and cities whilst we are forced to give grovelling apologies for our colonial history ,which most of don't condone and none of us are guilty of. Years of us being told that when we go there we are "colonizers" but when they come here it is "multiculturalism". All of those years have beaten down British pride in our culture to point were our own capitol city, our own, beautiful London, that our Grandparents fought for is now barely inhabited by the English. We have labelled those who have stood up as hateful far right Nazis. So I'm sorry to say that there are no longer any "stiff Englishmen". Just emasculated men, who dare not show pride in their flag, country ,culture and history, for fear of being labeled a bigot.. I wonder where all these newcomers will go when Britain is just like the places they fled from in the first place.. Sad sad times.
An incredibly articulate man with a true mastery of his language, he's so at odds with the foolery that exists today, indeed he'd find it unbelievable that what currently exists could ever have been brought into being.
His famous speech,HAS COME TRUE hasn't it💯 Look what's going on today in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
He puts our current stupid self-serving politicians to absolute shame!
That's not difficult, Noddy could do it.
There is no group in Britain today that is so victimised, so misrepresented, so downtrodden as the unfortunate indigenous white majority. And it's time we stood up, reversed this masochistic desire to please other races while downplaying ourselves.
Well said !
And THIS is why it is important to let people SPEAK and hear the WHOLE story to form your opinion. By hearing out the man or woman themself. That is something that truly has gotten lost in our modern times.
yeh he's awful.
People are afraid to hear an opinion that invalidates theirs because they’re not that confident in it. If they were confident that what they believed was objectively true, they wouldn’t need to cut through someone every 20 seconds to reiterate their point.
Jimmy Kimmel would have jumped in at sentence 2 with a jibe someone over a earpiece screamed at him
It’s not lost, it’s erased. The difference is that it’s BY DESIGN. You will not think, you will not openly discuss ideas, you will follow the state and corporate view of “morality” without question and any opposing opinion is almost illegal and is illegal in many cases.
This is before Political Correctness when one could listen and then decide for themselves
If only we could still have civilised and educated oratory like this today.
"Eventually, reality breaks through."
It’s only taken 40 years for what he’s said to come to reality for the UK
It started in the 70s and 80s with the riots.
I met him twice, 60/70,s, chatted re immigration he was in favour of Controlled immigration, he was very much understood but a gentleman,.
He did not predict the rise of Islam in the UK.
Happy to reset but we won't do it with any of our relevance or wealth. Immigrant affected the UK due to its enslavery of large amount of the world. I would love to know his opinion on Israel and Pakistan as his Utopian view didn't work there either.
@@telabib He did, but GB were moving to a more liberal movement after war years.
Enoch Powell a Gentleman who was before his time where immigration is concerned, he had the problem figured out even then and spoke of his concerns for the future of the UK, I just wonder what he would make of our gaggle of inept politicians allowing the destruction of our once Great Britain.
Pretty hard to find a politician of that calibre and courage in the UK today.
A very sensible man who understood reality rather than ideology 🥰🇬🇧
Amen.
Our apologetic politicians are doing everything imaginable to make us ashamed to be white.
This Enoch dude must have been a genius. He was ahead of his time and speaks so calmly.
He was no genius, he was a fake intellectual who was able to con the ignorant.
You think he's good, go watch some speeches the Austrian animal rights activist gave. It'll blow your mind.
No, he wasn't ahead of his time, he was of his time.
So perceptive when he says that "racism" is a vague term which allows itself to be used randomly as an insult!
He began his speech with the words "one of my constituents said to me". He then took the concerns of a constituent to the house, and was branded a racist as a result. So he did his job and he was still punished. Now Britain is a changed country and everything he warned us about is coming true.
Enoch Powell knew where the world was going and called it as he saw it,he was one of England's most intelligent, eloquent and pragmatic politicians, well said Sir.The term racist is a term that has become weaponized and used as an insult in a derogatory way and a term that many using it have no idea of what it actually means there is a fine line between being labelled a racist or a patriot and the left wing love to blur those lines.
Racist is not an insult. It's natural human behaviour. As Powell suggests, it's deliberatly ill defined. But in essence it means "accepting that there are differences in ethnicity, and acting accordingly." Same with "discrimination." It's not bad. Infact, if you cannot discriminate you cannot think. Which is exactly why they want to make it a social taboo.
Its Crazy, prior to researching E.Powell and ganing the knowledge to make an informed dicision about him, my perception was of an evil little man who was power hungry, how far from the truth is that. Just shows you dont listen to the mainstream propaganda and take it at face value. This situation happens on a regular basis.
I wear my racism badge daily with pride,no fux given
@@cantagiousca5220 Good lad. Only the lesser races cry about racism because they don't want to be treated as poorly as they deserve.
Will be rolling in his grave if he saw the state of the UK now 😢
The Greatest Prime Minister we never had...
He didn't become prime minster because he got sidetracked too easily.
@@SzTz100More likely because he understood and he stood against the plans for the UK from the very beginning of their implementation.
Well said, ddoherty! 👏
I so agree. So damn sad and unfortunate for this country
Brilliantly said
Never has a point been so perfectly put.
A fascinating character. I can just see him looking down from above at the UK now and saying in those clear dulcet tones...I told you so.... Why do we never learn from past mistakes...
How refreshing it is to hear a man speak his mind, unfortunately in today's society fear keeps everyone's opinions to themselves.
Cal Berkeley comes to mind on free speech using fear tactics.
Funny how he never spoke his mind to say those people who had nothing in common with British subjects shouldn't have been forcefully made British subjects by the British though isn't it? Almost as if he was happy as long as the empire only worked to benefit one group of it's subjects.
Shame though, that he was talking bollocks.
@@J.D.1.rubbish 😂
@@colinmcmbyou know he wadn
Great to see an interviewer not interrupt when the interviewee is answering any given question.
Yeah talent and professionalism is sadly in rare supply
Good point
People had more class back in the 70s
@@Ichijoe2112 that's not exactly how I remember it, but ok some people I guess
If they try to lie or turn away, you must certainly interrupt and force them to answer directly.
He spoke the truth with no malice, exactly what was happening
We need a hundred foot statue of him in London, and one in every town in the country
And one in Dublin
His point about importing US racial issues to the U.K. being out of context is spot on. That’s what BLM is, it has no contextual fit in the U.K.
It's not those who deserves something who gets it..its the the ones who complain the most.
or in the US
That is utter horseshit. How on earth can you actually believe that the things black lives matter stands for aren't relevant to black people in every country in which they are an ethnic minority? Its like you don't even know what blm is about.
@@fraserlaunchbury3667 BLM is about stealing money and spending on yourself the BLM leader was robbing funds meant to help black people. Organisation has been a joke since day one.
@@fraserlaunchbury3667 BLM has nothing to do with black people , its all about a political money grab and so many fell for it. All lives matter , I do not seperate any race from that.
As a french man let me say that he was a great scholar and a prophet!
He certainly was. Wishing the best for my French brothers 🙏
No he wasn't!! He was a racist scumbag!??
@@JustDaniel6764 ad invicem! 🙏
As an Englishman living in France I agree wholeheartedly.
Lots of Europe experiencing the same problems.
This man should of been prime minister, I’m sure Great Britain today would of been a greater and nicer place it is today
He did warn us but they wouldn't listen
"The term racist is a modern term of abuse, and the term of abuse is the more effective, the less defined it is, then you can throw it at anybody and anything" Paraphrased a bit, but honestly prophetic to the times we live in now.
I agree with you and Enoch, you can see something is very wrong when most left leaning media has to ban comments on videos of Enoch powell just because people might point out how right he was. It's like the people who calls trump and his part jewish government "nazi's" it's nothing but woke nonsense.
@@Demitrisplayground The term "n*zi" is itself a term of abuse. It's extremely undefined and does nothing but paint the caricature that has been built up by hollywoods propaganda. Anyone who you disagree with can be called it, for even the smallest difference in belief or values. I refuse to use the term anymore, even when referring to WW2 era Germany, as i realise that those who do use it on a near constant basis have little to no actual understanding or knowledge of whom it was originally used to refer.
employing terms of abuse,, as the liberal elements do, is a sign of an empty mind
Times full of racists, yeah.
Outstanding.
Extremely intelligent man who could call on his experience having served in the military, clearly made him a subject of envy by the resentful types. Thatcher was in awe of him.
What an intelligent man he was. And how much foresight he had. If he was here today, he wouldn't recognise the place. Very sad and disappointing that we do not have such orators and knowledgable 'leaders' in our current government, or the 'opposition'.
The only respected MP going not like this shower we've got today !!
Enoch Powell was a politician who understood the implications of mass immigration & what that would mean to the indigenous people of the country. Many other politicians of that time also understood those implications but few were brave enough to voice their concerns & when Powell did, he was promptly thrown under the bus & labelled racist. He was spot on with his predictions & looking around the UK at this moment in time it is plain to see that by importing the third world, we are fast becoming the third world. If only people had listened.
😂😂😂 We are British Subjects 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 ❤❤❤❤❤
@@kennyken4461 And just as a cat born in a stable is still a cat, anyone not of British stock will always be nothing more than an immigrant........🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
And a dog living in a house is still a dog.
@@Smackemback66this is the third world. No gold no diamonds nothing but coal and that’s run out.
That doesn't work. Unlike people who can apply for citizenship, how would an animal magically change into another animal once it wanders into a kennel or a stable? Your theory is full of holes. A cat would have to magically change into a horse for your theory to be true! 😆 @@Smackemback66
I had the honour of meeting Enoch Powell in 1982 and he radiated intelligence and good sense.
I spent the first 32 years of my (British) life fighting against everything this man said. And the second 32 years of my life regretting my original beliefs and applauding what he said.
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 That's because when we were young we were susceptible to the propaganda which went into overdrive against Powell. Where as now, we see for ourselves the outcome he predicted. It might also have to do with increased cynicism as we mature.
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 I'm American but I can say the same thing as you on an ideological level. It took until I was 45 to see the error of my beliefs.
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 you go there eventually man. =)
@@upturnedblousecollar5811thanks for sharing this. Sincere best wishes for your next decades ahead
we need this man back today
He tried to warn us but they didn't listen
This was at a time when politicians-even controversial ones-expressed themselves eloquently & with a firm grasp of history.Too bad that is sorely lacking today.
Well Said
Enoch was exceptionally intelligent even for those days.
This man literally predicted the future
As you said, so clever and then you could say how people felt, now he would be locked up, free speech is finished unless you agree with , Wokes, PC brigade, Snowflakes, human rights, BLM, tree huggers, and not forgetting do gooders xx
I'm not sure what you mean but if it is what I think, I would rather hear blunt, even crude truth than eloquent lies.
Not a racist but a very eloquent, pragmatic, realist and educated man, he told it as it was and would become and he WAS NOT WRONG! If only the 'Governments' of the day had LISTENED to him!
“We now know that unless some drastic change happens large parts of many of our cities will, by the beginning of the next century, be occupied by a population which has nothing in common with the people of this country.” Enoch Powell Politician 1971 His predictions have been proved right.
@@RestWithin if only people listened. Look at London and Birmingham now.
@@thatoneguychad420 - Bell-end...
@@analogueman123456787 😉
The government are the problem .they encourage immigrants
That is how the whole thing started, the majority snickered and paid no attention. Now it is too late.
I must admit I was a teenager then and thought he was racist, but I dont now.
He was spot on in everything he said to be honest
What Enoch failed to see was that future generations of immigrants assimilate and integrate and enrich communities. Historically no country has developed exclusively without input from other cultures. We only need to examine our DNA to see that this is the case.
I'm shocked to find myself agreeing with Powell after fifty years of disagreeing. Every thing he uttered has become fact and its speeding up at a monthly rate, "rivers of blood" there will be just a matter of time when the touch paper is lit.
I have spent my whole life listening or reading whoever I am instructed not to listen to - it is revelatory. The current generation have a pathological disease of dismissal. They also cannot apprehend any mindset beyond the current one. For them, the entire intellectual history of the world prior to ten minutes ago is wrong.
why did you disagree at the time ?
@@user-jh8no1zb9e because there were four families of colour living within a half a mile of my then slum home. now almost fifteen thousand and counting,,,,, thats why.
@@bensouthwell1339but he was talking about the future ?? So how could you disagree until the future happened ?
Cheers you boomer tool
Not a single word spoken here has been disproven by events
We need loads of people like this today
Amazing, a host that actually listened to his guess without interrupting them. How have we lost so much so quickly. We are a Nation in decline.
*IF you WANT TRUTH, Punch My Face!!!*
We are a whole civilzation in decline!
The West has been a mess since the war on terror.
Because they actually wanted the answer from the interviewee and not just the interviewers or the stations view
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This country is now in it's death throes for rejecting this man's warnings
So is the United States
@@odinsavenger4965USA has always been diverse
@@odinsavenger4965no... The United States is what replaced the natives. You Brits will be extinct for turning from the Christ soon enough
@@josiahwashington2530 Not until 1965. The US was 90+% white for nearly 200 years. The only diversity before 1965 was people from different European countries.
@@Rildar Care to describe the other 10% of Americans upto 1965?
When I was at secondary school back in the early 2000s we were given a task in history to write about a leader or “famous” person in politics for British history week. We were given a list to choose from but I wanted to write about Enoch Powell who wasn’t on the list. I asked the teacher if I could but was told I wasn’t allowed to choose him. I asked why and was told that he wasn’t considered an “important part of British history / part of the history syllabus”. It’s a shame the school even back then was scared they might get in “trouble” for letting a student write about someone who spoke their mind and told the truth. It was a privately paid school too…also proves the government and elites control so much, right down to the individual subjects and tasks set at school.
Absolutely spot on
What a good change to hear this historic interview when the person is allowed to answer questions instead of being shouted down.Enoch was a very intelligent articulate man who explained clearly and spoke the absolute truth. A great man
The person which is not allowed to answer questions and is constantly interrupted and shouted down means one thing: his ideas and principles make sense, addresses the problems society is facing and proves absolute logic.
This was before the media was absolutely controlled to fulfill an agenda
Still wrong and yet bigots still say he was right. He was wrong historically, numerically, with regard to colour discrimination and the Colonies and he was lying about other colonials who made their colonies automatic citizens, they couldnt be subjects because of their constitutions. I dont care if you are anti immigrant. Anti truth makes you a little at odds. He was picked up on straight forward fibbing by Jonathan and 50 years on Black people are still only 3 per cent of the total population. Didn't integrate? Have you seen who runs the public services, our best sportsman, our Soldiers heck our government - Immigrants.
Whatever you think of him, he was highly intelligent and an amazing communicator.
Enoch called it, now we're living in it.
An extraordinarily intelligent man. Having begun the war as the youngest professor in the British Empire (Professor of Greek, University of Sydney), for a few weeks Enoch Powell was the youngest brigadier in the British Army, and was offered a regular commission as a brigadier in the Indian Army.
If only people had realised how true Enoch's words would be.
Even myself, who opposed his views 100% when he was alive, now think _"He wasn't wrong...I was."_
Some did
Imagine a talk show host who actually allows someone to explain themselves, to espouse their thoughts and beliefs, whether popular or not, and then ask questions that people on both sides of the issues would probably want to ask themselves. The cancel culture in American society today has all but ensured that interviews like this will never be allowed to happen in the future. Show hosts are nothing more than cheerleaders for their point of view, and they exist only to foist their opinions on their audience who clap and cheer them along. Our intolerance for the opposing point of view is making us more stupid by the day, and it will ultimately be one of things that leads us to our decline and destruction.
Yes. I'm not too keen on Cavett, but I agree wholeheartedly with your statement. The interaction between the two is superb. Articulate, controlled, open, factual, interesting...it rarely occurs today. *Edit, The cancel culture is prevalent in the UK too. It's suffocating reasonable discourse.
@@David-cm4ok suffocating reasonable discourse is a good way to put it. It's one thing when that type of rhetoric is conducted by politicians. In fact, some would say it should be expected of them given the nature of politics. It's the behavior of the tech companies who literally have the power to control the flow of dialogue that alarms me the most. It is truly Orwellian in nature.
Was a massive racist tho
@@THOMASCOLTON1 Far too intelligent to be a racist. And also represented a constituency with many immigrants. Go away and learn about Powell and stop being a bigot.
@@peterwest5525 Well said!
In 2024 how right he was ,no doubt he is looking down now and saying told you so but you didn't listen ,🤔🇬🇧
That man could actually see the future he knew WOW