Tories revert to type
by hakmao, 3 November 2007
Nigel Hastilow, the Conservative candidate for the constituency of Halesowen and Rowley Regis, is in hot water for stating that Enoch–rivers of blood–Powell was ‘right’ on immigration:
The Conservative hopeful made the comments in a column for the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton - where Mr Powell had been the MP at the time of his 1968 speech.
The candidate wrote: “When you ask most people in the Black Country what the single biggest problem facing the country is, most say immigration.
“Many insist: ‘Enoch Powell was right’. Enoch, once MP for Wolverhampton South-West, was sacked from the Conservative front bench and marginalised politically for his 1968 ‘rivers of blood’ speech, warning that uncontrolled immigration would change our country irrevocably.
“He was right. It has changed dramatically.”
Mr Hastilow also wrote: “They have more or less given up complaining about the way we roll out the red carpet for foreigners while leaving the locals to fend for themselves.”
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 1:57
I love how Tory pissants complain about Polish plumbers. Did they do the same about Polish pilots killing the fuck out of Nazis?
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 23:01
To be honest this statement- “He was right. It has changed dramatically.” -is correct. You’d have to be a right muppet to believe otherwise. Britain today is not the Britain of 1945.
The question is not, has immigration changed us but, is immigration changing us for the better? Or the worse?
Personally I think its changed us for the better. And I’d like to stand up and say Polish Builders are one of the best things to happen to this country. Nice people, good workers and they run some great places to eat.
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 23:44
“To be honest this statement- “He was right. It has changed dramatically.” -is correct. You’d have to be a right muppet to believe otherwise. Britain today is not the Britain of 1945.”
‘Immigration’ has not ‘changed us’. Modernity and economic development has changed (for want of a term that doesn’t allude to biolological causation) ‘us’.
On top of that, the racist Powell’s speech was about a lot more than merely pointing out that immigration ‘changes stuff’. He was being a racist cunt. And don’t you fucking forget it.
You’d have to be a right muppet to *believe* otherwise.
Of course - I always prefer *thinking* to believing. Speaks volumes when the word believe is substituted for think I think.
Monday 5 November 2007 at 4:00
Curiously enough, Nigel Hastilow’s contempt for foreigners extends to fellow citizens living in North Britain. Fishheid McMoonface would be proud of his reactionary rhetoric. If one wanted evidence that the Tories are now the mirror image of the SNP, here we have it:
http://nigelhastilow.blogspot.com/2007/08/och-aye-its-time-to-say-goodbye.html
Why should we continue to tolerate the racist ingratitude and profound inequality of the relationship between England and Scotland? Let’s not forget, Scotland is actually smaller than the West Midlands…
The Scots exploit the English in much the same way that colonial powers in the 18th century used to exploit the natives of South America. They take vast quantities of our money and spend it on themselves, making sure their lives are much cushier than ours.
You would be forgiven for thinking England was a Scottish colony. Our Prime Minister and Chancellor are Scots. We have a Scottish Speaker in the House of Commons. We have far too many MacMafia politicians in positions of power!
We even have to endure the dominance of the Scots in our media. You can’t watch the BBC news or listen to Radio Four without some Scottish accent intoning Big Brother’s thought for the day at you.
Down with bigots and the English National Party!
Monday 5 November 2007 at 12:08
And is not immigration part of that economic (and social change)?
I know what the rest of Powells speech was like. That is why I isolated only one part of the statement as right. Not the rest.
Monday 5 November 2007 at 15:06
http://www.davidosler.com/2007/11/racist_catchphrase_bingo.html
Immigration isn’t an agent of change — it is itself a product of prior economic changes. But anyway, this is all a stupid fucking argument.
Wednesday 7 November 2007 at 12:26
For the record
http://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/reason-to-be-cheerful/
Thursday 8 November 2007 at 14:17
[Filthy tory bloggertarian deleted.
Listen up prick.
The only reason your comment under Paulie’s post above is remaining in place is because it helps display and highlight just what a bunch of fucking cretins you lot are.
Dope. Now, be a good lad and double fuck off. There’s a poisonous old chap.]