When Eric Clapton's Bigoted 1976 Rant Sparked Rock Against Racism Eric Clapton went on a racist rant onstage at a 1976 concert, which sparked Britain's Rock Against Racism campaign.

You are entitled to your opinion about Clapton as a guitarist but Clapton is an objectively shit human being, just remember that.

#enochpowell #riversofblood

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why are Britain’s elites more tolerant of overt racism in 2025 than they were in 1968?

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https://www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-story

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#OriginStory
#RiversOfBlood #EnochPowell
#IanDunt #DorianLynskey

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Really informative listen, painfully acute, and not at all dry:

#OriginStory
#RiversOfBlood – How #EnochPowell poisoned Britain

How did one speech poison British politics? What led Powell to deliver it? What can it teach us about the timeless tricks of anti-immigrant oratory? Did he merely […]

Farage has honed in to what divided the country back in the 70s & 80s. And has now re-invented the fantastical fuckwits from that era. Fred Perry Tshirts & Doc Martin boots, Skinheads & braces. This is the England of that era, This is where he finds natural support. @lbc.co.uk
#RiversOfBlood

So Idon’t doubt that Starmer could act now if he felt it were necessary. Arguably there was a streak of ruthlessness in his decision to tell his biographer Tom Baldwin that he “deeply regrets” using the term “island of strangers” in a recent speech.

"I deeply regret being massively racist because it didn't pay off"

#IslandOfStrangers #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Starmer #KeirStarmer #Racism #RiversOfBlood

#StephenMiller has taken his “society of strangers” needing cleansing ethos in his post to Gov #GavinNewsom from Enoch Powell's #RiversofBlood speech, which became a rallying cry for #racists & the far right in the UK. PM #KeirStarmer tried to push this ethos in his "island of strangers" speech.

Took down the last boss! Only on the third attempt, but he's definitely a tier harder than the rest. I'm not sure I like how mobile he is, as #Executor I spend 80% of the fight chasing him down.

#RiversOfBlood really carried the fight though, gave me some range I don't normally have.

Classy! Some racist owner of an ironmongers called Mumfords in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire has this in her shop window. Needless to say she's a Reform supporter. Police are investigating thankfully. #Reform #Racism #EnochPowell #UK #Shropshire #Riversofblood

As well as speaking about “an island of strangers” - which some critics claimed echoed Enoch Powell’s 1968 “rivers of blood” speech about a future multicultural Britain where white people “found themselves made strangers in their own country” - the prime minister talked of “taking back control of our borders” and ending a “squalid chapter” of rising immigration. The interfaith letter, shared exclusively with the Guardian, has been coordinated by the UK Jewish refugee charity HIAS+JCORE, which works for a more compassionate refugee policy and narrative.

Starmer getting his "Big Book Of Bad Jews And Good Jews" and seeing if these are on the approved list.

They're aligned with Refugees, whom Starmer has been told to 'unperson' so they're probably the 'bad' sort of Jews who are left wing and value human life […]

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How do the @uklabour.bsky.social whips manage to sit on what should be a #powderkeg of dissatisfaction, even disgust with:
#UnequivocalSupport of #Israel
#RiversOfBlood speech
#welfareDenial?

@channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social #news
@skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent on #Starmer #RiversOfBlood #EnochPowell #Farage #Immigration #IslandOfStrangers – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

2nago 12.45 BST Liz Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru leader at Westminster, has issued this statement about the PM’s blunt response to her question at PMQs. (See 12.21pm.) 44 The prime minister’s outburst showed that my question struck a nerve. The expressions on the faces of many Labour MPs told their own story - plenty of them know I was right. If his convictions change with the political weather, it’s no surprise that support for Labour in Wales, as across Britain, is falling through the floor.

The Labour Left relying on other Parties to voice their concerns because they have no voice within their own Party.
Yet still they reside within it, not making any real difference and just enabling the Fascism coming from Blue Labour.

Come on Zara Sultana […]

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Starmer wearing Mussolini's Military hat, after making a full on racist speech

I know I've posted this image before, but that was before #KeirPowell went full-cream fascist with his #riversofblood

So here is #Starmer wearing Mussolini's hat, again.

If the cap fits.. #Starmer #ukpolitics #islandofstrangers

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You will tell us who are valued servants for your glorious WHite British Regime, won't you Yvette?
Will we be allowed to look the purebloods in the eyes or will that make them feel like strangers, do tell […]

Has #starmer forgotten that's he's in the Labour Party?

#riversofblood #islandofstrangers #starmerfascistdictatorship #starmerracist

4mago 15.2985T Lord Dubs, the Labour peer best known for his campaiging on behalf of refugees, has said that the language used by Keir Starmer when he published the immigration white paper yesterday was “regrettable”. In an interview with the News Agents podcast, he said Starmer’s language was “reminiscent of [Enoch] Powell and Pm sorry Starmer used some of those phrases.”

I'm not sorry, I'm angry.

#LordDubs #IslandOfStrangers #RiversOfBlood #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour

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In the political news today, the Red Team are fighting back accusations of copying Enoch Powell as well as being involved in a tree felling and freebie from Tottenham Hotspur, the Blue Team has one of their MPs charged for sexual assaults at the Groucho Club last year.

They say the People are […]

Starmer was clearly echoing Powell. But what is not clear is whether, for Starmer and/or the person who write the speech, this was intentional, unconscious (people can remember phrases without recalling where they came from), or complete coincidence (politicians more than 50 years apart, ‘making a similar argument, by deploying the same, not-particularly-unusual word). Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech was denounced as racist as soon as he delivered it (although not so much for his comments about native Britons finding mass migration unsettling, where many people would agree he had a point, but for his suggestion that it would culminate in violence, oppression and social collapse, where he has turned out to be hopelessly wrong) and it is still widely viewed as abhorrent. Yesterday Starmer was condemned by leftwingers for saying something that sounded Powellite.

A reminder that 'Rivers Of Blood' was too racist for even the 1960s.....

#RiversOfBlood #IslandOfStrangers #KeirStarmer #Starmer #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Racism #Xenophobia

4hago 103285T Starmer's use of phrase echoing Enoch Powell was accident’, not intentional, says source close to No 10 In an interview on Newsnight last night Arlene Foster, the former DUP leader, said she thought that someone in Downing Street would have known that “island of strangers” was a clear echo of what Enoch Powell said in his Rivers of Blood speech. Asked if Keir Starmer would have been aware of the similarities in the language, she replied: 44 Somebody did Downing Street, I'm convinced of it, “Island of strangers” is a very particular form of words, it’s almost a term of art. So where did it come from? And who was the person that said this should go into the speech? But Starmer’s allies are saying it was genuine mistake, and not an intentional echo of what Powell said. “It was an accident, and not designed to cause a row,” according to a source close to No 10 familiar with what happened. The source accepts that someone should have realised that the “island of strangers” phrase had Powellite connotations. But the fact that this was not picked up is attributed to an error, and not an attempt to reference the Rivers of Blood speech.

They really take us for cretins, don't they?

Starmer 'accidentally' took on the spirit of Enoch Powell.....is this some kind of walk down?

Pathetic, even Arlene Foster is saying he's gone too far....the fucking DUP!!

#IslandOfStrangers #RiversOfBlood […]

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So #KeirStarmer rejects suggestion he echoed Enoch Powell yesterday. But he also rejects that Israel are committing a genocide. We can take his claims with a pinch of salt #RiversofBlood

The "Rivers of Blood" speech was made by the British politician Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968 to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham. In it Powell, the then Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in the Shadow Cabinet of Ted Heath, strongly criticised the rates of immigration from the Commonwealth (mostly former colonies of the British Empire) to the United Kingdom since the Second World War. He also opposed the Race Relations Bill, an anti-discrimination bill which upon receiving royal assent as the Race Relations Act 1968 criminalised the refusal of housing, employment, or public services to persons on the grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origin. Powell himself called it "the Birmingham speech"; "Rivers of Blood" alludes to a prophecy from Virgil's Aeneid which Powell (a classical scholar) quoted

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'.[1] The speech was a national controversy, and it made Powell one of the most talked-about and divisive politicians in Britain. Heath, the leader of the Conservative Party at the time, dismissed him from the Shadow Cabinet the day after the speech.[2] According to most accounts the popularity of Powell's views on immigration might have been a decisive factor in the Conservative Party's unexpected victory at the 1970 general election, although he became one of the most persistent opponents of the subsequent Heath ministry.[2][3]

So....this is where we are now....looking this up today... #RiversOfBlood #IslandOfStrangers #KeirStarmer #fascism

I only wish us Celts had told the immigrants who arrived in Britain in 500AD to fuck off back from whence they came.

#starmer #enochpowell #riversofblood

#KeirStarmer #Starmer from #WeWelcome to new #Language like that of #EnochPowell #MargretThatcher #Thatcher, #Reform, #Tories. #IslandOfStrangers #RiversOfBlood #Swamped. #Words & #ChangedArguments MATTERS. Hang your heads in shame @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Stop adding fuel to #FarRight

Starmer really is a coward POS, punching down to appeal to fascists and to hell with the rest of us.
Disgusting man.
#Starmer #KeirStarmer #Fascism #RiversOfBlood #IslandOfStrangers
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists

👉 Vote 'em Out!

Anyone who’s ever interacted with any care workers feels a huge debt of gratitude to them, and yes, newsflash, this is irrespective of whether they were born in the UK. If you know any care workers, it’s because they’re caring for you or someone you love. It’s a pretty tight bond, far more intimate and meaningful than any you've ever had with your MP. To hear that we risk becoming an “island of strangers”, as Starmer has said, because of foreign- born care workers - well, it’s hard to muster the appropriate outrage because it’s just so patently untrue.

Starmer really is a coward POS, punching down to appeal to fascists and to hell with the rest of us.
Disgusting man.

#Starmer #KeirStarmer #Fascism #RiversOfBlood #IslandOfStrangers

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Here's a great video from On Demand News covering the topic:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjCb... 😎

#ebm #industrial #echōdead #riversofblood

Am done with the @BBC
#RiversOfBlood