‘Rivers of Blood’

Hannes Wessels,

This year, Sadiq Khan, a devout Muslim of Pakistani parentage, who refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Crown, became the first Mayor of London to be honoured as a ‘Knight of the Realm’ by King Charles III, in recognition of the ‘outstanding service’ he has provided to the city and the country.

This decision has caused consternation in many quarters with critics claiming the knighthood was a ‘reward for failure’ with crime in London exploding and record numbers of people leaving the capital in the last few years.

But on the face of it, the King, almost certainly on the advice of Sir Keir Starmer’s government, was signalling to the country and the world that the decision made many years ago to transform the country by allowing an almost unfettered influx of people from outside Europe had been a spectacular success.

This should not have come as any surprise. King Charles, despite being head of the Church of England, seems more committed to proselytising on the virtues of Islam than advocating those about Christianity.

Both King and His Majesty’s government might or might not be right, but one day, more informed historians than I will likely see this act as another signal event  in the course of the breakdown of Britain as we knew it.

It must be said, I am not optimistic about how honest those historical assessments will be bearing in mind that Britain’s universities and intelligentsia are so comprehensively infiltrated and dominated by ‘leftist’ thinking. One must therefore be prepared for some twisting of the facts to suit the designated narrative.

In my opinion Blighty’s downward slide began after WW-II, when wartime leader Winston Churchill was rejected by the electorate and replaced by the committed socialist, Clement Attlee. I can’t help but think this would not have happened had so many good Englishmen not been killed in two World Wars.

Attlee won the election easily and then opened the doors to immigrants, with ‘borders’ remaining open to the present day for virtually every population group in the former Empire except Europeans such as I, born under the Union Jack in Southern Africa, with an unacceptable pedigree.

What Attlee started, gathered momentum with successive British governments led by politicians’ intent on ‘virtue signalling’ to the world their unconditional commitment to transforming the United Kingdom into a vibrant multi-racial and multi-cultural entrepot.

Under the new rules ‘most favoured status’ was granted to people from abroad, preferably non-Caucasian, who shared few or no common values with the native Britons while discriminating against people that did, simply because they were either white or Christian, even both.

It was with this doctrinaire mindset that Harold Wilson seized upon the Rhodesian imbroglio triggered by its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) with alacrity. It gave him and the Labour leaders their heaven-sent opportunity to show the world unmitigated disdain and, in many cases, utter contempt for their former countrymen and comrades-in-arms who had only recently prior been men at war defending the British Empire.

Simultaneously, Wilson et al sided firmly with those who aimed – with alms or arms – to destroy inherited infrastructure and functional governance systems duly constructed and implemented under Imperial rule.

Meanwhile, the world cheered because this dispute was seen, or cast, simply as a black versus white binary problem. Wilson and ‘comrades’ stood staunchly with the former against the latter.

Watching this circus with dismay was the Conservative Party MP, Enoch Powell. Born in 1912, a prolific reader at three, who delivered sermons at six, Powell became the youngest professor in the British Empire when aged 25 years, as he took the Chair in Classics at the University of Sydney. On the outbreak of WW-II, Powell lied his way into the forces, joining the army as a private in 1939. By the end of the war, the accomplished classicist was the youngest Brigadier in the British Army.

Elected to Parliament in 1950 on a Conservative ticket, Enoch Powell became Minister of Health in 1960. When Ian Smith declared UDI, he was the shadow Minister of Defence under Edward Heath.

Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech was made in 1968, and he was immediately dismissed from the shadow cabinet and expelled from the Conservative Party, before being banished to the political wilderness.

This date might well go down in history as the pivotal time that the establishment leadership decided that neither it, nor the electorate should be allowed to hear dissenting voices or tolerate critical views about the merits of uncontrolled immigration. That censorious regimen continues to be purveyed to this day with potentially disastrous consequences apparent, and likely more coming.

A recent example of this phenomenon has been the strenuous efforts at all levels in the public sector and the media, through successive governments over the last 20 years to suppress information relating to the so-called ‘grooming gangs’ that have terrorised white English teenage girls in their tens of thousands.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Powell’s problem with what was happening in Britain was not premised on mere race, as so often characterised, but rested more on differentiated cultures, values and religions.

Like Ian Smith, Powell never suggested that any group was inherently superior. Both men argued that fundamental differences in culture, values, beliefs and cosmology made it difficult, if not impossible to enable immediate and inevitable integration.

Powell the politician insisted that assuming otherwise would debilitate social and political structures, long established, that bound the peoples of Britain together and hence would in due time eventually lead to conflict.

After 14 years of the bush war waged by the Cold War powers in Moscow and Peking, and indirectly aided and abetted by London, and others in the West, Ian Smith lost that argument over four decades-plus ago.

The results of Rhodesian demise and Britain’s predicament are now clear for those prepared to look. Today, the UK appears increasingly conflicted. If Elon Musk is to be believed, Powell was right, and potential civil war might loom.