This speech compares its central concern to a "cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky," and approvingly cites a statement by John Stonehouse condemning communalism.
On the forty year anniversary of this speech, Trevor Phillips gave a speech refuting its central arguments. This speech compares its central concern to a "cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky," and approvingly cites a statement by John Stonehouse condemning communalism. It begins by asserting that "The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils," and quotes a letter about an old woman who "finds excreta pushed through her letter box." Harry Pearman led a strike of one thousand dockworkers in support of the politician who gave this speech, whose peroration quotes a prophecy made by the Cumaean Sibyl in book 6 of the Aeneid. Edward Heath sacked the man who gave this speech, which quotes a middle-aged worker's prediction that "In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." Warning that anti-discrimination laws would allow minorities to oppress indigenous citizens, it was delivered in Birmingham on April 20th, 1968. For 10 points, name this speech warning that increasing number of ? immigrants would lead to racial violence in Great Britain, delivered by Enoch Powell.
On the forty year anniversary of this speech, Trevor Phillips gave a speech refuting its central arguments.
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