U.K: ANTI-IMMIGRATION GROUPS PARADE IN SUPPORT OF RIGHT-WING M.P. ENOCH POWELL

Record ID: 450952

  • Title: U.K: ANTI-IMMIGRATION GROUPS PARADE IN SUPPORT OF RIGHT-WING M.P. ENOCH POWELL
  • Date: 8th December 1968
  • Summary: DEMONSTRATORS; POWELL RECEIVES PETITION Initials TS/V/MR/SIM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd December 1968 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, U.K.
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA9IRS92IICU8RTHRVMEL8OSURH
  • Story Text: IN LONDON TODAY TWO GROUPS -- ONE COMPOSED OF MEN, THE OTHER OF HOUSEWIVES -- PARADED THROUGH THE METROPOLIS IN SUPPORT OF THE ANTI-IMMIGRATION STAND TAKEN BY RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ENOCH POWELL. BOTH GROUPS PRESENTED MR. POWELL WITH PETITIONS IN HIS SUPPORT.

    MORE THAN 2,000 PEOPLE SIGNED THE PETITION PRESENTED BY THE HOUSEWIVES AND MANY OTHERS SIGNED THE ONE DELIVERED BY THE MEN -- MEMBERS OF AN ORGANISATION CALLED THE NATIONAL FRONT -- ALL BACKING HIS POLICY THAT COLOURED IMMIGRANTS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO GO BACK HOME.

    ONE OF THE DEMONSTRATORS CLAIMED THAT MR. POWELL HAD THE SUPPORT OF 90 PER CENT OF THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION.
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