"Howard does link immigration and asylum (two separate issues that he often treats as one subject) with the increased threat of terrorist attacks. Most of us would choose to have excrement on our doormats rather than be blown up. Howard has escalated the danger of immigration beyond even Powell's wildest excesses."
Most of us Yanks may not know who Enoch Powell was:
On Saturday April 20th 1968 he made a controversial speech in Birmingham, in which he warned his audience of what he believed would be the consequences of continued unchecked immigration from the Commonwealth to Britain. Because of its allusion to Virgil saying that the Tiber would foam with blood, Powell's warning was christened the Rivers of Blood Speech by the press, and the name stuck.
With appalling timing, Powell only realised later that of all the days he could have made a speech that some regarded as racist, it was on the anniversary of Hitler's birth - during a period of Britain's history when it was known that various notorious neo-Nazis held birthday parties in the Nazi leader's honour...
Of course, my favorite Powell reference:
Cleese: "Rastus Odinga-Odinga has taken Wolverhampton Southwest, that's Enoch Powell's old constituency -- an important gain there for Darkie Power."
In other UK developments, swing state syndrome has set in:
"In no previous campaign has so much attention been focused so precisely on potentially uncommitted voters in marginal seats. If you are one of the million voters whose franchise really counts, then you will have received dozens of letters and telephone calls from the party headquarters. The remaining 95 per cent of the population, perhaps fortunately, have been virtually ignored by the party professionals. The election barely exists for them."
Red states and blue states are reversed in the UK and the parties actually USE the [britspell]colours[/britspell], red for [britspell]Labour[/britspell], blue for Tory (plus yellow for Lib Dem and varying shades of orange and green in Northern Ireland).
And Tony has picked up an endorsement, if not a vote: Former President Clinton made the endorsement during a satellite linkup to a Labour Party rally in London Sunday..."
UK Election
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