Enoch Powell

• 'Rivers of Blood' speech
• Who was Enoch Powell?

  A conservative MP opposed to large-scale migration
• What did Powell fear?

  that the white people's population were at risk
• What did his speech criticise?

  mass immigration, especially the commonwealth immigration to the UK and the proposed Race Relations Bill
• 'We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation'
• 'Like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre'