ABSTRACT
For many people the greatest challenge to Britishness since the late 1940s has been black immigration. Enoch Powell was well supported in the late 1960s as he made a series of speeches expressing the racism of many white people in Britain.1 Powell saw black immigration as destructive of the very existence of Britain:
We must be mad [he said], literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.2
