Edward Heath's Lethal Legacy

The Daily Telegrah today has an item revealing the depths of Heath's determination to subvert Britain and and hand the remains to the control of the European Community. The article may be read from here while the extensive documents released through the Margaret Thatcher Foundation and linked by that newspaper, make much more fascinating reading and may be reached by clicking here. The facts on Edward Heath and what became the EU will now clearly become fully revealed and clear to all. Another aspect of Edward Heath's legacy is yet to receive much coverage in the mainstream media, which is surprising in light of the recent successful and then failed attempts to blow up Londoners and their public transport network by individuals hating Britain but nevertheless entitled and claiming British citizenship and thus becoming 'British' suicide bombers of fellow Britons. I touched upon Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech made in 1968 in an earlier posting. That speech may be read in full from this link, and it is clear that the quotation from a constituent Powell chose to use in its opening stages, and other elements of the speech were clearly racist and quite correctly therefore widely condemned. Whether Edward Heath was correct to consequently sack Enoch Powell could still be open to balanced to debate - BUT the fact that Edward Heath, his senior colleagues, party and all subsequent administrations effectively buried their heads in the sands over the policy matters thus raised, now seems a matter requiring more open debate if the country is to find a means of tackling the nation's present dire security crisis for which Edward Heath in particular among recent political leaders clearly carries much of the blame. The parts of the 'Rivers of Blood' speech which now seem particularly prophetic and worthy of further thought I believe are the following: "The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. ..... Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: "If only," they love to think, "if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen." ..........At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician............. In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's Office. There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population. As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimised lie several parliaments ahead........ 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...... Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal. Unquote The racist aspects of Powell's various speeches are to be deplored, but for the thrust of the arguments to have been thus subsequently totally ignored is something for which many politicians, unlike Edward Heath still alive to admit their culpability, should now be called upon to consider.