Quote:
Originally Posted by Mancie
No you could not say that about Foot and Powell..one a socialist and the other a right wing facist racist.. but at least they were honest.
|
In 1945 Enoch Powell voted Labour , but was soon to join the Conservatives .
In 1974 he left the Conservative party , and in the two General Elections of that year , February and October , he urged the voters to vote Labour .
In the October election he was elected as an Ulster Unionist MP .
When asked about the Thatcher victory of 1979 he replied , " Grim " .
In the 1980s he made speeches supporting unilateral nuclear disarmament .
Quite a maverick .