QUOTE OF THE MONTH

'There could be no grosser misconception of the realities that is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it "against discrimination", whether they be leader writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right up over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and of resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming.'

'The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word "integration" . To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members. Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants who have come to live here in the last 15 years many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction. But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one.

We are on the verge here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population - that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly.'

Enoch Powell, speaking in 1968.

At the time when Enoch Powell made this speech, he was complaining of a Commonwealth immigration rate of around 50,000 per annum. Total immigration is now roughly ten times that figure (in 2003, according to the Office of National Statistics 512,000 immigrated to the UK with the stated intention of staying for more than one year, of whom 105,000 were British citizens returning from abroad - then there is illegal immigration).

Labour has completely abandoned immigration controls.

Enoch Powell was right. He predicted exactly the problems we now face. The scale of immigration into the UK is such that the immigrant communities do not need to integrate and do not wish to do so. Instead, they can concentrate in and take over an area.

The Muslim population has the further barrier that their religion brings. This has been exacerbated by fundamentalism and the growth of the support for extremism, including support for Al Qaeda.

The ethnic minorities are forecast to form a majority of the population in England in roughly 50 years.

It is impossible to deal with the present crisis without ending mass immigration.