Nigel Hastilow's Real Crime Was to Dare to Mention Enoch Powell at All

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Perhaps, then, Mr [David Cameron] took exception to [Nigel Hastilow]'s observation that [Enoch Powell] was 'right' that the country had been dramatically changed by immigration. But Hastilow did not say that immigration should be stopped or, as Cameron now insists, be substantially reduced; merely that the country had changed. He did not suggest that large-scale, recent immigration had a negative impact upon 'public services, the environment, and on community cohesion'.

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Nigel Hastilow's Real Crime Was to Dare to Mention Enoch Powell at All

A policeman once told me, over lunch in the House of Commons canteen just off Westminster Hall, that the problem of immigration would be sorted for good and for all, very soon. 'The chill north wind, from Odin's Land, will exterminate the scum we have brought to our shores, ' he said, equably enough, and then went and queued up for some pudding behind Michael Meacher.

I was left to muse upon his words. I don't think he m...

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