Enoch Powell - Rivers of Blood Part 1

Forty years after Enoch Powell's infamous speech predicting that mass immigration would lead to violence on our streets, filmmaker Denys Blakeway explores the impact of the maverick Conservative MP's words and legacy.

Powell was a member of Edward Heath's Shadow Cabinet when he made the Rivers of Blood speech in 1968, so-called because he quoted the Roman poet Virgil's prophesy: "I see the Tiber foaming with much blood". He was immediately sacked, but not before sparking furious debate, with his words dividing the nation.

This film examines Powell's speech in unprecedented detail, discovering how his core argument was ignored in favour of his incendiary language. It questions what led him to speak out in the first place and traces the speech's effect on immigration policy in Britain.

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[jnestor481]

3rd world pathologies have now infected England thanks to its immigrant population. Multiculturalism is a ploy developed by marxists like Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno to help destroy western civilization. We must resist!

[ecalebw]

The funny thing is that Brits and Americans want to invade other countries and take over their cultures and societies and rape their resources but don't want those same victimized countries coming into their country and reaping the benefits.

[thenutintheushanka18]

@ecalebw I don't mind it. Xenophobia and imperialism are like oil and water. You'll find that most of the people (like myself) with rather hawkish foreign policies tend to be fine with all forms of legal immigration.

[oozisoundzmusic]

@Blahblobify What I can never understand about you racist hypocrites is, how you can feel such a false sense of racial supremacism? You think you can FORCIBLY invade other lands, rape and pillage, and LIE. When your ancestors cantankerous actions come back to bite you, you cry out it's injustice?!? You can't possibly understand the meaning of that word, when you aren't politically conspired against in covert- oppression. Nor discriminated against by of 'sheeple' following imbeciles like him!

[oozisoundzmusic]

While intelligent black peace activists like Dr. Martin Luther King jr were promoting race relations in the states, paranoid idiots like him were stirring b.s all over here.

[oozisoundzmusic]

@Blahblobify Yh like you destroyed their countries and lied about them not having civilisations.

[apmirkin]

@Blahblobify it's not when us niggers take over a city, it's when people on borderline overtake a city..

all you whites are at it too.. but you just wanna see a colour. so fuck you!

[Blahblobify]

@ecalebw

LOL "plenty of places in the states where blacks live that are nice".....there are NO nice black neigborhoods, they destroy everyplace they infest.

[ecalebw]

@Blahblobify So not true...there are plenty of places in the states where blacks live in that are far nicer than any offerings in Birmingham or West London. I've always believed that europe has been far too romanticized w/all the pickpockets and rapists. Many of which are not black, not to mention the rampant prostitution. There are many run down flats in London that are predominantly white and dangerous.

[CelticReject]

@ecalebw I don't think the average British man or woman wants anything to do with the wars over there. most want the troops home. It's the EU and the British governments who cause the wars and who allow unchecked immigration in to the UK. Most want OUT of the EU and see it as a giant con by unelected technocrats. The people who's societies are changing beyond recognition are, as always, left to suffer the consequences.

[98bigbutt]

@98bigbutt,The reason why that happens because they lower the prices of the neighborhood because the blacks are poor and create blockbusters.