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March 23, 2017

Capitalist Intelligence Services: MI6 & CIA ... Rivers of Blood





ministry of tokyo









MI6 & CIA

ASSASSINATION OF AIREY NEAVE




Come Out Ye
Black and Tans








 Airey Neave & Margaret Thatcher


Airey Neave - first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle, WWII




Airey Neave,
wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard


Enoch Powell of "Rivers of Blood" fame




Following extracts are from assorted Wikipedia entries:



Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann








Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)


1974 – present (on ceasefire since 1998, formally ended armed campaign in 2009

paramilitary wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)

Ideology

  • Irish republicanism
  • Left-wing nationalism
  • Marxism–Leninism


seeks to remove Northern Ireland from UK rule
& to establish a socialist republic
encompassing all of Ireland

founded by former members of the 'Official' IRA who opposed that group's ceasefire


BRITISH designate Irish National Liberation Army (INLA):

PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION under the Terrorism Act 2000

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), designated illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland

--

first action to bring the INLA to international notice
assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave
British Conservative Party's spokesman on Northern Ireland
one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters

1982 bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork
/ which the INLA believed was providing assistance to NATO
/ in violation of Irish neutrality

6 December 1982 – the Ballykelly disco bombing
Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry
catered to British military personnel
11 soldiers & 6 civilians killed

INLA members participated in the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes
for the recognition of the political status of paramilitary prisoners

x3 INLA members died during the latter hunger strike – Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine
plus: x7 Provisional IRA members

1983, x3 members of the congregation in Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley
/ shot dead during Sunday service

IRA: weapon had been given to the INLA member to assassinate a known loyalist
/ attack on the church was not sanctioned

1987 the INLA came under attack from the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO),
/ group made up of expelled or disaffected members of the INLA
/ feud resulted in the death of x16 INLA and IPLO members
/ mainly took place in cities, most notably in Belfast, Derry, and Dublin

feud ended in 1992 with the INLA surviving just barely,
/ Provisional IRA stepping in and wiping out the main Belfast leadership of the IPLO
/  as IPLO were openly involved in drug dealing
/ letting the rest of IPLO dissolve outside of Belfast

1992, the INLA carried out its first killing in England, post Airey Neave death
/ shot dead a recruiting army sergeant in Derby

1997, NLA gunmen opened fire on British soldiers in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast
Drumcree conflict triggered x6 days of fierce riots / widespread violence in several nationalist areas of Northern Ireland

mid-1980s, the INLA was greatly weakened by
1. splits among ranks
2. criminality within its own ranks
3. conviction of many of its members under the British supergrass scheme

Harry Kirkpatrick, an INLA volunteer
/ arrest - x5 murders charges, 1983
/ agrees to give evidence against other INLA members


Supergrass (informer)
British slang
originated London
informers referred to as 'grasses' since late 1930s
'super' coined by journalists in early 197022 / describing underworld informers testifying against former associates
in series of high-profile mass trials of 1970s





grass / for SNAKE IN THE GRASS
known in English to mean 'traitor' since late 17th Century

phrase derives from the writings of Virgil (in Latin, latet anguis in herba)

latet anguis in herba = snake in the grass

latet = hidden
anguis = snake
herba = grass, plant

Northern Ireland the term "tout" is a popular alternative to "grass"

Northern Ireland police used term 'Assisting Offender' in lieu of 'tout' / 'grass'
legislation enables use of evidence from such offenders

Northern Ireland 'supergrass' = arrested paramilitaries
/ divulged identities of compatriots to ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY
/ probably in exchange from IMMUNITY from prosecution + monetary inducements (which were not denied)

1981, use of term in Northern Ireland began with arrest of Christopher Black
in exchange for protection from prosecution:
Black gave statements which led to 38 arrests

Black testimonies alone:
1983, 22 members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to a total of more than 4,000 cumulative years in prison
> x18 of those convictions overturned on appeal 1986

by end 1982, x25 more 'supergrasses' had surfaced contributing to the arrests of over 600 members paramilitary orgs

last supergrass trial finished on 18 December 1985
x25 members of the INLA were jailed on the evidence of Harry Kirkpatrick
x24 convictions later overturned 1986

many convictions based on supergrass testimony were later overturned, and the supergrass system was discontinued in 1985
UNTIL 2011


Neave pro-Ulsterisation

ULSTERISATION

three-part strategy

1. "primacy of the police"
2. "normalisation"
3. "criminalisation"

of the British government during the conflict known as the Troubles


ie. disengage the non-Ulster regiments of the British Army from duties Northern Ireland
/ replace them with LOCALLY recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary & other

objective = confine the effects of conflict to Northern Ireland

strategy outlined in:

unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled The Way Ahead produced by a committee of senior British Army, RUC and MI5 officers

produced the often controversial strategies of "criminalisation" and Ulsterisation

'Criminalisation' / avoid acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict

*motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war ... to that of a campaign against "criminal gangs"

Ulsterisation = move to locally based policing

policy comes from a similar US strategy towards the end of the Vietnam War called "Vietnamisation"

COMMENT:  "LOCALISATION" - EFFECTIVE & PURSUED AS POLICY BY CAPITALIST COLONIALISTS IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATIONS

Ulsterisation led to important changes in the casualty patterns
/ military/police casualties from Northern Ireland EXCEEDING British casualties for the rest of conflict
/ reversing the previous pattern

*political impact in Britain of killings of British soldiers by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
= greater than the deaths of local security forces
= DROP in British Army casualties helped prevent any build-up in Britain of sentiment for withdrawal from Northern Ireland


Airey Neave
qualified lawyer
spoke fluent German
British army officer
politician

assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb
at House of Commons

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility

WWII
Neave -  first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle
subsequently promoted to war substantive captain / permanent rank of captain 1945
later recruited as an intelligence agent for MI9

MI9
MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945
tasked with facilitating escapes & return of British prisoners of war
communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment
understaffed due to power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 & other
/ WWII prison-camp escapees were debriefed and questioned about their journey home
/ MI9 - WWII presence in Middle East, military deception role / secret mission
'A' Force deception department set up, representing MI9 in ME during war (later separate)
manufactured various escape aid sent to POW camps

* officer prisoners inside Colditz Castle requested and received a complete floor plan of the castle

used the services of former magician Jasper Maskelyne to design hiding places for escape aids
forged German identity cards, ration coupons and travel warrants were also smuggled into POW camps

MI9 sent the tools in parcels in the name of various, usually non-existent, charity orgs
/ did not use Red Cross parcels lest they violate the Geneva Convention and to avoid the guards restricting access
MI9 relied upon their parcels either not being searched by the Germans OR message warning to prisoners to remove contraband
/ German guards learned to expect and find the escape aids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9

Escape equipment - more:


Airey Neave
  • role of reading indictments to the German leaders on trial
  • served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, investigating Krupp
  • wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the capitalist victor trials
  • was awarded the Bronze Star by the US government 1948

promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1950 (retroactive from 1948)

1950 & 1951, stood for the Conservative Party

career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959

Neave - campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's leadership of Conseratives bid
1975, Thatcher elected leader
Neave rewarded with post as head of Thatcher private office
/ then appointed Shadow Sec. of State, Northern Ireland
/ & poised to take equivalent cabinet position at time of assassination, in the event of 1979 Conservatives win

Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation

Neave - author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution in Northern Ireland
+ concentrating on local government reform instead
this * integrationist policy *  abandoned hastily by successor

information from an intelligence agent 'Lee Tracey', claiming Neave had met Tracey, to recruit Tracey to team of intel & security specialists who would ensure politician Tony Benn "was stopped" - ie. alleged assassination of Tony Benn if Labour elected
/ second meeting planned but Neave was killed before meeting took place

MAGNETIC CAR BOMB, fitted with ball-bearing tilt switch, exploded under his new vehicle
at 2:58 pm, as he drove out of PALACE OF WESTMINSTER carpark
/ serious leg injuries - died in hospital without regaining consciousness


INCALCULABLE LOSS TO THE BRITISH RULING CLASS

INLA issued a statement:

In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class.

Neave assassination x2 days after the vote of no confidence
brought down Callaghan's government (few weeks before the 1979 general election)
saw Conservative victory / Margaret Thatcher to power as PM

Neave's wife: subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon

following Neave assassination, INLA was declared illegal across UK


KEVIN CAHILL

Kevin Cahill
Kevin James Cahill
author and investigative journalist
1965 and served as a platoon commander
in: Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland
1968, leaves army
University Ulster, BA Eng Lit.
worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK
+ Singer & Friedlander merchant bank
/ finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited
1979 he became a full-time journalist
part-time Research Assistant to Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown in the House of Commons
+ various other
/ advised many politicians

investigative journalist, Kevin Cahill
claimed Neave assassination was an inside job
Neave killed by MI6 agents working with CIA
/ Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in intel establishment for corruption

Cahill wrote:
prior to Neave assassination in 1979, Conservative MP Airey Neave
on verge of a massive overhaul of the security services
possibly merger of MI5 & MI6
due to belief in corruption in security services

Cahill suggested link between assassination of Neave
  • & Sir Richard Sykes murder
  • + attempted murder of: Christopher Tugendhat, 1980

Cahill claims Neave would have been head of the combined security services
+ Sykes (foreign ops) and Tugendhat (home ops) as his deputies

HOUSE OF COMMONS - nobody would talk, says Cahill
"everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous
Cahill claims security staff did not believe INLA murdered Neave but that it was an "inside job"



FORCED
FEDERALISATION


Kevin Cahill book: Trade Wars (1987)

most important historical fact in the book - note in 1954 by a British Civil Servant

(T. W. Garvey, later Sir T. W. Garvey)

INDICATING UK had,
because of the 'special relationship' with USA:

1. "the Loan, the lion's share of MARSHALL AID"

2.  "comparative immunity from FORCIBLE FEDERALISATION ..."

Wikipedia: "No historian has been able to explain what 'forcible federalisation' was"

COMMENT: likely the NATO & EUROPEAN UNION capitalist federalisation & the capitalist promotion of dispossession of European peoples, promoted as 'humanitarian' benevolence of capitalism, in what is a push for 'globalisation' of ruling capitalist power - a capitalist-ruled world slave state





Interesting Capitalist History



Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 It was a business world defined by globalization and growing interdependency. But it's not international trade circa 2000. As HBS professor Geoffrey Jones points out, the "global economy" first emerged in the 1870s.

 London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about investment opportunities worldwide.  — Geoffrey Jones


http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merchants-to-multinationals-british-trading-companies-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries





Kevin Cahill book: Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership (2006)

Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface
/ more than any other individual or nation
/ 6,600 million acres in 32 countries
/ Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it

all territories owned by the Crown,
including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom,
the governments (on behalf of the people) of those countries DO NOT own the land of the country
but may administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II
/ all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership

Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure
/ freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership

USA = only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it

USA federal govt owns one-third of the land of nation
as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the US federal govt

'eminent domain' - gives right of govt federal authorities & bodies to acquire privately owned land for public purposes




ENOCH POWELL




Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist
claimed in an interview with The Guardian, 1984
that Americans had killed:
1. Airey Neave
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Robert Bradford MP

said: evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
said (1986): Neave assassinated by "MI6 and their friends"

Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK
Americans feared that this process, if implemented, would be irreversible

Enoch Powell claimed;
Neave assassination
intended to make the British govt adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO


wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave



RIVERS OF BLOOD

Enoch Powell












Come Out Ye
Black and Tans




MY OLD MAN'S A PROVO



Tiocfaidh ár lá



May 23, 2016

Enoch Powell Documentary




Rivers of Blood

Enoch Powell
the only private soldier throughout WWII
to reach the rank of Brigadier
Professor Powell, Intelligence Officer, British Eighth Army
North Africa
 General Erwin Rommel
'Desert Fox'
Afrika Korps
Third Rich Germany WWII
Enoch Powell's quarry
Signals sent by Rommel's Afrika Korps
all intercepted by the British


SUMMARY
[re quotations:  confirm audio]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc26aTCwyYM


Enoch Powell Documentary

John Enoch Powell



The issue of race was to bring Powell in confrontation with Edward Heath.

Powell won the plaudits of many traditional Labour voters, like the London dockers.


Birmingham Born


Born in a thunderstorm in Birmingham in 1912.

His parents were both schoolteachers.

The young John Enoch Powell was so precocious that he was nicknamed "the Professor".


Scholar
 

He won a scholarship to King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, where he was known as "scowly Powelly".

He established himself as brilliant at Greek and Latin.

A contemporary at school was Christopher Evans.
"He was fiendishly clever and we were all rather frightened of him, as I think were some of his masters, actually.  He was so good and rather knew it, I think, you know.  And my memory of him is of a rather pale, slightly stooping boy with head thrust forward, rather intense look and serious look in his face.  He was a loner.  A complete loner."
Christopher Evans

"I wasn't different from other children.  I was just as naughty.  I was just as wicked and malevolent."


"I hesitate to remember the depredations which I helped to commit upon the rolling stock of the Midland Railway Company, as we travelled to and from King Edward's, Birmingham."

"Well, I have been known to unscrew the luggage rack ...".
Enoch Powell

Trinity College, Cambridge


Powell went as a classics scholar to Trinity College, Cambridge, the finishing school for future Soviet spies and Tory cabinet ministers, but he was too busy for extramural activities.

"As an undergraduate, I got up at five.  I knew nothing else to do but to work.  I didn't keep a fire in my room.  I worked in an overcoat with my feet in a blanket, because I thought that more conducive to mental effort.  Whether it is so or not, I don't know.  But I did.  I had no social life as an undergraduate."
Enoch Powell

What about as far as women are concerned?

"They didn't exist."

Enoch Powell
 

But you must have seen women at Cambridge.

"Yes, I noticed them."
Enoch Powell

What did you think of them?

"I wondered what they were doing there, because I didn't think they would approach advanced learning in the same mood or manner as a man would."
Enoch Powell

Why did you think that?

"Because the analytical faculties are underdeveloped in women."
Enoch Powell

 

Although he claims he knew no women there, at Cambridge Powell wrote his first book of poems -- some of them highly erotic -- which revealed the intensity of feelings beneath the aesthetic façade. 

XLI

I did not speak, but when I saw you turn
And cross your right leg on your left and fold,
Your hands across your knee, I felt a flow
Of white-hot lava seething up the old
Volcano-shaft.  That self same attitude,
Though not of yours, it was which long ago
Fired me, an innocent, unknowing boy.
And led me on to sin and on to learn
And onwards onto the very fount of woe;
From which returning, evermore pursued ...
Enoch Powell

"It wasn't written to anybody.  It was written as an exercise.  A work of the imagination."
Enoch Powell


WAR DRUMS

Australia WWII Recruitment Drive
Henry Buck's, Swanston Street, Melbourne
[CLICK TO ENLARGE]
 [source]

Australia | War Drums

When he was 25, Powell flew to Australia.

He'd become professor of Greek at Sydney University.

There his feelings of British nationalism grew as he became convinced that war was inevitable.
 

His poems show he welcomed the prospect of dying fighting for his country, although he believed the [Germans] would win the war.
 
I felt I could hear the German divisions marching across Europe and I could hear this drumming coming through the earth,
and coming up again in Australia where no-one else could hear.



British Army


Powell volunteered when the war began and says he spent the happiest time of his life as a private soldier in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but he had high military ambitions and was soon rise with record speed through the ranks.

The army had quickly spotted Powell's linguistic and intellectual talents, and he was sent for training as an intelligence officer.

A fellow cadet at Aldershot  ...

"We were a motley crew and Enoch Powell was there.  Didn't pay a great part in sort of boisterous evenings boozing a bit and so on, which obviously young cadets did.

He was conspicuous by lying on his bunk -- by lying on his bed most of the time reading, and it turned out when you asked him, you know, what you're reading, he said:  "Oh, well, I'm reading the bible."  And he said, "If it sounds funny that it's even funnier, because it's in Greek."

He was popular, but we sort of took him as a bit of a nutcase, I suppose."

Sir Hardy Amies
Intelligence Corps 1939-1944

Powell was sent to work with intelligence officer with the Eighth Army in North Africa.

His task was to get inside the mind of the German army commander General Rommel, by deploying his professional skills as a textual critic.

The secret signals sent by Rommel's Afrika Korps were all being intercepted by the British.

There Rommel was known as "the Desert Fox", Professor Powell came to understand more about the general's plans than anyone else in the British Army.

After the British victory at El Alamein, Powell was to become the only private soldier throughout the war to reach the rank of Brigadier.

He was posted to India ...

-------/\/\/


Powell now took up fox hunting and it was in pursuit of the uneatable ...

"Well, I fell in love with someone while I was hunting."

"That failed.  I was not satisfactory."
Enoch Powell

You mean, you wanted to marry her and she turned you down?

"That's right."
Enoch Powell

His love was Barbara Manor Kennedy, a Colonel's daughter from the Shropshire County set.

She was 23; he was 37 and she was the first women he'd ever courted.

Powell dedicated a book of poems to his love, identifying her only as "B".

One of them told of how they parted.



XVII

I dreamt that on a mountain-crest
As in the sheep-cropped grass we lay,
The worlds that ever at my breast ...

You ceased.  The wind that through the sward
With steady-breathing passion swept,
From flower and grass and heather blent
'Amen' to that strange sacrament;
And silent, as it seemed, we wept.
 
Enoch Powell

-------/\/\/

"Well, then I took up with the lady who did marry me and lived happily ever after, I believe one adds."
Enoch Powell
"... his eyes were very blue and he was great fun."
Pamela Powell
Pamela Powell, herself a Colonel's daughter, vividly recalls how the 40-year old Powell proposed.

"We had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and I knew he was going to ask me and, three days later, he did ask me.

And what he actually said, when he was on his bended-knee no less, he actually said to me:  I can't promise you anything except a life of poverty, grinding poverty, and a life totally on the back benches."

Pamela Powell

Her mother had told Pamela Wilson that being married to Enoch would be like going to university every day for the rest of her life.

She relished the prospect but was unprepared for the absent-mindedness of her professor on their return from honeymoon.

Pamela Powell recounts anecdote.

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NATIONALISM

Powell's political star was soon rising.

The father of two daughters presented an ideal family man image. 

Powell was appointed Treasury Minister and began to be talked of as a future Tory leader, but he resigned from MacMillan's government in protest against increased public spending.

He was a prototype monetarist before Mrs Thatcher was even an MP.

In 1965, with the Tories in opposition, Powell stood for the party leadership against Ted Heath.

Heath won ...

Unlike the bachelor leader, Powell had duties as a father.

By 1968, Enoch Powell had become a recognisable political figure.

Powell was now developing an ideology markedly to the right of Ted Health's, above all on the taboo subject of race.

Powell was alarmed by what he saw as the dangers of coloured immigration to the British nation.

His views seemed to contrast sharply with his professed love for India.

"India is India and England is England.  And an Englishman can have a love for India without wishing to see India on the streets of Birmingham."
Enoch Powell


-------/\/\/

RIVERS OF BLOOD

Rivers of Blood Speech - transcript.

The issue of Race was to bring Powell in confrontation with Heath.

Powell decided to quote directly from the experiences of immigrants from his white constituents.

Only parts of that polemical speech were filmed, but Powell has kept his original text.

He began by attacking the Labour government's bill that outlawed racial discrimination.

[ ie.  Labour government Race Relations Bill ]

"The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and of resentment lie not with the immigrant population but among those among whom they have come and are still coming.   This is why to enact legislation of a kind before parliament of this moment is to risk throwing a match onto gunpowder."
Birmingham, April 1968
Enoch Powell

Powell quoted a letter he said he'd received about an elderly widow living in Wolverhampton, the only white resident left in her street.

He quoted from the letter:  "She is becoming afraid to go out.  Windows are broken, she finds excreta pushed through her letterbox.  When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies.  They cannot speak English, but one world they know.  "Racialist", they chant."

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.  

We must be mad.  

Literally mad as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population.  

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre."

Birmingham, April 1968
Enoch Powell

Powell ended the speech with a quote from Virgil, translated from Latin:

"As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding, like the Romans, I seem to see "the river Tiber foaming with much blood.""

A storm broke out in the press.

Press condemnation, [political performance & baying agitators].

[Comment:  stock standard demands to sack politician.  How many times have we seen this intimidation, bullying & hijacking replayed since Powell was sacked by Heath?]

DISMISSED

Enoch Powell
Dismissed by Edward Heath, MP
Opposition Leader (1965-1970)


Edward Heath said:  "I dismissed Mr Powell from the Shadow Cabinet because I believe that his speech was inflammatory and liable to damage race relations in this country.  I am determined to do everything I can to prevent racial problems developing into civil strife, and this means that these questions must be treated with moderation and with toleration."

[ Enoch Powell concludes that Heath was alarmed by the outcry and, sensing danger, ran for cover. ]


In fact, Powell had never made a speech so explicit before, and there was a groundswell of support for him from seemingly unlikely quarters.  The London dockers had demanded his reinstatement and the Smithfield meat porters marched on parliament with a petition. 

"It touched a spring.  A spring which vibrated in the hearts of millions of people in this country. "
Enoch Powell


[Powell subsequently received over 45,000 letters mostly in support.]

The persistent theme of the letters was that Britain was being changed in ways that the writers disliked and feared, without any consultation.




RACISM

"What's wrong with racism.
  
Racism is the basis of a nationality.

Nations are, upon the whole, united by identity with one another; the self-identification of their citizens, and that's normally due to similarities which we regard as racial similarities."
Enoch Powell

Powell's visits to universities across the countries were now regularly disrupted.  He aroused stronger feelings, both pro and anti, than any other politician of his time.

"Too often today, people are ready to tell us "this is not possible, that is not possible".  


I say:  whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible."
Enoch Powell
Conservative Party Conference 1968


Powellism

Powellism reached parts of the Tory party which Ted Heath could never reach.

Conservatives under Heath winning in 1970, sealed Enoch Powell's exile.




COMMON MARKET

It was Europe that was to cause the final break between Heath and Powell.

Ted Heath's application for Britain to join the common market aroused Powell's nationalistic feelings, even though, ironically, Powell had himself once been a pro marketeer like Heath.

As the anti-marketeers marched on Number 10, Powell prophesied that our entry into Europe would never happen and the bill to take us in would be defeated.

"I would have done anything to prevent the Conservative party from passing that bill.  I did all I could.  I voted in the lobby against it 106 (one hundred and six) times."

Enoch Powell

Did you not feel any loyalty to the Conservative government?

"My first loyalty is to the people of this country, and I thought they were being deprived behind their backs of something which I believed they valued and still believe they do:  their self-government through parliament."
Enoch Powell


SOVEREIGNTY 

Conservatives had destroyed the self-government of the United Kingdom.


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Funeral Planned


The marketplace romantic has carefully planned the arrangements for his own funeral.

After a service in the chapel of his regiment, he will be buried in full-dress Brigadier's uniform.


BURIED:  alongside Warwickshire Regiment veterans
Warwick Cemetery, Warwickshire, England - here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc26aTCwyYM


Enoch Powell was (and is) exceptional.  What a lovely man.

I found this documentary highly emotive.

History has bearing on WWII; WWII has bearing on 1968; and 1968 has bearing on today.


*No time to properly check for typos.  Must cook.  ;)