German establishment newspaper Die Welt (The World) has published a sympathetic article about former British Conservative politician Enoch Powell – a hero of anti mass migration campaigners often vilified by the political left – in a reflection on the migration crisis.
In British political discourse, reference to the late Wolverhampton Member of Parliament is most often an invitation for a firestorm of criticism from the same sort of pro mass-migration activists who contributed to the downfall of Mr. Powell himself. Yet the same does not appear to hold true in Germany were a thoughtful editorial on the prescience of Mr. Powell’s comments on mass migration has elicited little excitement.
Reporting the classical source of his now infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech — the Roman poet Virgil — the column by German historian Michael Stürmer said no one in British politics had been “punished” so “mercilessly” as Powell for stepping out of line. Full story...
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In British political discourse, reference to the late Wolverhampton Member of Parliament is most often an invitation for a firestorm of criticism from the same sort of pro mass-migration activists who contributed to the downfall of Mr. Powell himself. Yet the same does not appear to hold true in Germany were a thoughtful editorial on the prescience of Mr. Powell’s comments on mass migration has elicited little excitement.
Reporting the classical source of his now infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech — the Roman poet Virgil — the column by German historian Michael Stürmer said no one in British politics had been “punished” so “mercilessly” as Powell for stepping out of line. Full story...
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