One Nigel Hastilow, who looks, I shall mention in passing, like a cheap gangster, has apparently said 'Enoch was right', during an article on immigration given to his local newspaper in his capacity as a Conservative candidate. Presumably after some mild suggestion from the leadership he has thought it right to resign.
I'd have sacked him for stupidity. His leader Cameron has cleverly introduced the subject of immigration into the political scene, having taken the unpleasantness out of the verbiage. This was a clever move by Cameron, for whom it could be a vote winner. Hastilow's outburst was a gift to Labour.
In my view, more than half the country subscribe to the view 'Enoch was right', in what is known as the 'rivers of blood' speech, but less than 1% of them have any idea what he did in fact say. It was 'Like the Roman I see the Tiber foaming with much blood', a quote from Virgil's Aeneid. The Tiber. Not the Thames or the Ouse. 'Like the Roman'. You'd have thought even the daftest person might guess this was some sort of ancient quote. Virgil also coined the phrase 'timeo Danaos et dona ferentis' but each time anyone says 'I fear the Greeks bearing gifts' it isn't thought to be some racist comment on our European partners. I'm afraid the new ignorant class has been led by the Left to allowing the persecution of an educated man (Powell, not Hastilow). But he's dead now and it can't hurt him.
I think that with Hastilow's departure the average IQ of Conservative candidates will have risen but it all seems so silly,
I'd have sacked him for stupidity. His leader Cameron has cleverly introduced the subject of immigration into the political scene, having taken the unpleasantness out of the verbiage. This was a clever move by Cameron, for whom it could be a vote winner. Hastilow's outburst was a gift to Labour.
In my view, more than half the country subscribe to the view 'Enoch was right', in what is known as the 'rivers of blood' speech, but less than 1% of them have any idea what he did in fact say. It was 'Like the Roman I see the Tiber foaming with much blood', a quote from Virgil's Aeneid. The Tiber. Not the Thames or the Ouse. 'Like the Roman'. You'd have thought even the daftest person might guess this was some sort of ancient quote. Virgil also coined the phrase 'timeo Danaos et dona ferentis' but each time anyone says 'I fear the Greeks bearing gifts' it isn't thought to be some racist comment on our European partners. I'm afraid the new ignorant class has been led by the Left to allowing the persecution of an educated man (Powell, not Hastilow). But he's dead now and it can't hurt him.
I think that with Hastilow's departure the average IQ of Conservative candidates will have risen but it all seems so silly,
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