Quote Originally Posted by durhampie View Post
We had gone past the point of no return when Enoch Powell was ridiculed with his rivers of blood speech. Fast forward 50 years, we now allow halal meat, there are more mosques than churches, football teams and other sports have had to change thier names because they includes white in the name.. We have a Pakistani Mayor of London, We have an Asian Prime minister, we allow some sections of Sharia law to be used in areas where there are mainly Muslim residents... If thats not reform then i dont know what is.
There's around 2,000 mosques and 40,000 churches. Nobody is being forced to call Notts supporters "the black and other colour army". Sadiq Khan is British. So is Rishi Sunak. There have been British people who look like them for centuries. And there are pretty clear reasons for that. We only allow Sharia (which means "law") for civil matters, just as we allow Jewish religious law in the same, limited circumstances. It is strictly opt in.

Powell's speech was seen as racist and incendiary at the time. He wasn't ridiculed, but seen for exactly what he was. He was rightly sacked for it - if he hadn't been, the shadow cabinet would have collapsed.

His speech was only four years after a Tory candidate endorsed the slogan "If you want a n****r for a neighbour, vote Labour". Personally, I'm bloody glad that isn't seen as quite so acceptable any more. At least by most people.