celeste . . . what I mean by MESSIAH in relation to Enoch Powell is that he was the figure that defined an alternative view to multiculturalism at a time when Britain started to see significant numbers of immigrants settling here from the Commonwealth.
Despite losing the arguments and being banished into the political wilderness, he has always remained a figurehead for a lot of people who never really signed up to the idea of multiculturalism - (or those that have been turned off it).
My argument is that the view of British society that he espoused of racial exclusivity for these Islands is so divorced from the the way the world is moving - (see above posts) - that to adopt Powellism would be, to quote a famous political saying, 'THE LONGEST SUICIDE NOTE IN HISTORY'.
Enoch Powell, also, is an aberration in the light of over one thousand years of history where Britain has seen countless recorded and unrecorded waves of immigration.
I do think that there are things about multiculturalism that undermine the cohesiveness of our society, but, imagine what Enoch Powells ideas will do!?!
For me, the man sits alongside some of the worst people in history because he appealed to the worst instincts in people . . . fear, paranoia, arrogance and a warped sense of his own belonging.