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."
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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