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Mail readers strongly back pro-Powell position
It’s a non-scientific poll, and the Daily Mail runs lots of immigration and Islam stories so its readership will naturally be on the restrictionist side, but the results are nevertheless heartening. In response to the question, “Should would-be Tory MP Nigel Hastilow have quit for saying Enoch Powell was right?”, 16 percent of respondents said yes, and 84 percent said no. While the resspondents’ hearts are in the right place, Hastilow of course had no choice in the matter. Faced with Tory party chairwoman Caroline Spelman’s ultimatum that in order to keep his candidacy he must commit himself to refraining from Powell-like statements about race and immigration in the future, he refused, so he was forced to step down. I apologize for my rough comments about Hastilow yesterday, when it appeared that he had instantly resigned without standing up for himself. Finally, there’s a public figure in mainstream Britain who’s not a nonentity! But if the British system keeps picking off immigration dissidents one at a time, how can restrictionism get anywhere? Through numbers. Entire groups of people, in the Tory party, in places of employment, in schools, in the military, need to stand up together and say in unison, “I’m Nigel Hastilow. I’m Enoch Powell.” I’m speaking figuratively, but if you want to take it literally that’s fine too. The point is that the British people must start acting collectively against their immigration policies and their hate-speech laws. Will Britain fire half its population? Will it indict half its population for incitement to racial hatred? UPDATE: Here is a fuller account of what Nigel Hastilow would have had to agree to as a condition of keeping his Conservative candidacy. What he couldn’t stomach, he says, was the requirement that he “submit any future articles to the Conservative headquarters before submitting them to the editor.” Ok, there was a limit to what the man would swallow. Of how many mainstream Britons can we say that today? However, there are signs that our man Nigel may be wavering. According to the Mail,
Last night Mr Hastilow, 51, insisted his remarks about Mr Powell’s notorious 1968 “rivers of blood” speech were not racist and went on to warn that there were “too many” people in the country and that Britain could not afford to accommodate them all.The above does not provide the full quote, but if it is an accurate representation of what Hastilow said, then he’s reducing the immigration issue to simply a matter of population. Enoch Powell, whom Hastilow said “was right,” was not talking about population. Powell was not kicked out of the Tory shadow cabinet in 1968 for saying that Britain’s population was getting too high. Powell was dismissed for saying that a mass immigration of non-British race, culture, and religion was transforming Britain into a different country, and that the British had the right and duty to prevent that from happening.
This is your moment in the spotlight, Mr. Hastilow. This is your time to make a strong, logical, moral argument that challenges Britain’s suicidal orthodoxy on diversity and immigration, and thus encourages other people to do the same. Please don’t back away from the cultural/national aspect of immigration. Please don’t turn this into an issue solely about population growth. Email entry |