Nigel Farage Is a Poundshop Enoch Powell
And that tells you everything…
The bloodiest century in the history of mankind did produce all kinds of colourful characters: megalomaniacs, certifiable individuals, genocidal fascists, totalitarian communists and insanely wealthy stock market manipulators.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wasn’t different from its neighbours across the western hemisphere, as it was grappling with too many of these personalities in its little space.
You could argue with credibility that Winston Churchill, Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell weren’t much different from each other and nor were they any different from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Extreme circumstances forced these individuals to alter their positions and those who didn’t were severely punished by the establishment
Oswald Mosley did time in prison for daring to think that he could turn the England into a fascist paradise.
And Enoch Powell?
His story is quite interesting in the sense that you’d be hard-pressed into finding a much more committed English nationalist than the man.
Here was a guy who had undertaken the task of learning Punjabi and Urdu, in order to fulfill his supreme ambition of being viceroy of the British Raj and…