Enoch Powell | Roy Jenkins | British Inflation | This Week | 1970

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  • THE ACCELERATING SPECTRE OF INFLATION HAUNTS THE POLITICIANS, ECONOMISTS AND A MAJORITY OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT INFLATION IS?
    IN THE STUDIO TO DEFINE AND OFFER REMEDIES TO INFLATION ARE ENOCH POWELL AND ROY JENKINS WITH ROBERT KEE IN THE CHAIR.
    First shown:19/11/1970
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 676

  • @crazyfishmonster459
    @crazyfishmonster459 5 років тому +379

    When people debated the things that mattered, and it was shown in an unbiased manner. Totally alien to today.

    • @pommiebears
      @pommiebears 5 років тому +5

      Coffee Arts politicians are still lying bastards though...lol! You get the odd one that cops it because he told the truth, but nowadays most are just lying turds. I’m hoping that they aren’t paedophiles now though, I truly am. Dirty, lying bastards!

    • @kristiblack4789
      @kristiblack4789 4 роки тому +3

      By design and Social Engineering. Divide and Conquer is a War Strategy used by the Romans and British for purposes of division and control. Plus the bonus is, they get us to fight, compete and destroy each other while they profit off of it ALL. It's as equally brilliant as it is repugnant! There can never be Peace while these Whores 4 War R US continue to illegitimately Control and Rule over us!

    • @TheDeletedOneOrwellian
      @TheDeletedOneOrwellian 4 роки тому +1

      Pommie bears live under tribalism see how that goes. Democracy and capitalism control and harness tribalism

    • @gewizz2
      @gewizz2 4 роки тому +5

      now its all black privilage this and black privilage that.

    • @Sionnach1601
      @Sionnach1601 4 роки тому +2

      @@TheDeletedOneOrwellian You're being thoroughly disingenuous. The meaning which I understood from Pommi Bear's post was the highlighting of *corruption*. You are talking about *systems*.
      No system will work efficiently or fairly with corrupt individuals at the helm.
      You can argue about systems if you wish, but please don't 'straw man' another man's argument.

  • @billygiles3276
    @billygiles3276 5 років тому +370

    Damn. I would give anything for such honest and intelligent politicians today.

    • @force6769
      @force6769 5 років тому +11

      And yet if you lived in his time; you would scold him, insult him and protest him to the resignation. Do you know how i know? Because that did happen to him. People like you only change when they are showen with rigorous proof why they are wrong and that happens only with time.

    • @steamteamkids3961
      @steamteamkids3961 5 років тому +10

      What I don't like about these people is the sheer hypocrisy.He was in Australia, India countries INVADED by the British.Do you think they had a choice? It's like what's happening now racists weeping for south Africa but then saying a brown person can never be British, then how is a white person south African??????
      If whites had stayed in Europe maybe everyone else would too

    • @billygiles3276
      @billygiles3276 5 років тому +10

      Force woah you don’t even know me and are making massive assumptions. In the contrary I would actively support Powell’s candidacy. I have to admit I wouldn’t support Jenkins but at the same time I wouldn’t protest his candidacy. So please don’t group me into these modern SJW totalitarians who endorse violence and removal from office of people they simply disagree with when thee person hasn’t even commited any crime

    • @kentjensen4504
      @kentjensen4504 4 роки тому +4

      @@force6769 You don't know the guy, you fucking idiot.

    • @kentjensen4504
      @kentjensen4504 4 роки тому +14

      @@steamteamkids3961 You don't know anything. The settlers in South Africa came to lands not farmed by anyone, with only hunter gatherer tribes roaming here and there. They settled, farmed the land, and were on good terms with the small roamng tribes. Only after the settlers started building towns, roads, turning the land into farms, building affluence, did people from farther north venture south, wanting to partake in or steal the sort of society they're clearly can't build themselves.

  • @satishrai5022
    @satishrai5022 5 років тому +117

    It is an honour and privilege to hear Enoch. What an amazing and intelligent man.

    • @barringtonsmith9147
      @barringtonsmith9147 3 роки тому +10

      The man was fluent in five different languages, would you believe that one of those languages was Urdu

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 2 роки тому +4

      The most brilliant UK politician that ever lived. Read his Wikipedia entry. The man was an absolute genius.

    • @ML-qk1px
      @ML-qk1px 2 роки тому +4

      I believe Enoch Powell was a speaker of more than 10 languages

    • @ejkalegal3145
      @ejkalegal3145 Рік тому

      Shame his conclusions have been shown by time to be utterly wrong. You coconut.

    • @satishrai5022
      @satishrai5022 Рік тому

      @@ejkalegal3145 Not at all you freshie illegal immigrant

  • @stringingdaisies3429
    @stringingdaisies3429 Місяць тому +2

    As a 10-year old İ would have flicked the tv channels to Emma Peel or Top of the Pops but i remember Enoch Powell as being very charismatic and having a strong impact on last century politics. These days İ can't get enough of watching vintage Enoch Powell. The logic, economic sense, and pure intellectual reasoning, the likes of which we won't see again.

  • @ftorres93
    @ftorres93 5 років тому +161

    Those old ladies spoke more sense back then than any politician does today.

    • @nostalgiaof98
      @nostalgiaof98 5 років тому +1

      And reminds me of Monty Python's pepperpot character influence

    • @mckinnhe
      @mckinnhe 5 років тому

      @K L As clever as a belch out loud. Your Voltairian wit skewered Mr. Torres as if he had been stabbed by an ice cream cone.

    • @clauderebello2850
      @clauderebello2850 5 років тому +1

      SPOT ON..!!

    • @trappistpreserves
      @trappistpreserves 5 років тому

      You sexist fucking twat

    • @billygiles3276
      @billygiles3276 5 років тому +7

      trappistpreserve any more of your masculinity you want to give away in the name of totalitarian liberalism?

  • @PatrickBateman191
    @PatrickBateman191 4 роки тому +15

    Listen to this reminds us very painfully that we have declined enormously.

  • @11Kralle
    @11Kralle 5 років тому +286

    Enoch Powell could reminisce about his fathers annual choice of livingroom-wallpapers and it would still be a feast for ones ears.

    • @sacredsoma
      @sacredsoma 5 років тому +6

      Jenkins so dribbles in panic

    • @kloschuessel773
      @kloschuessel773 4 роки тому +1

      11Kralle its amazing

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 роки тому +3

      @@sacredsoma Jenkins regularly wiped the floor with Powell in parliament

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 3 роки тому +1

      If he were alive today this great man could help us reminisce about the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. 😢

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 3 роки тому

      @@JohnSmith-it6hj Missing apostrophe.

  • @MrNaKillshots
    @MrNaKillshots Рік тому +6

    Enoch is an excellent listener, an amiable human being - as well as being an intellectual goliath compared to most, if not all, other politicians of his time ( and most definitely since ).

  • @tigerarmyrule
    @tigerarmyrule 5 років тому +47

    It is like a different world. One thing I notice is the naturalness and ease with which all three men use the language of the Bible...Satan rebuking sin and Cain's sin and heresy etc etc. Educated Englishmen - and all three were educated - were conversant with the basic outline of the Christian faith. Another thing is the courtesy with which they address each other..........as i say a totally different world. Enoch Powell, acerbic, deeply intelligent, a logician and a thinker would be unelectable and unwelcome now.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 роки тому +1

      Roy Jenkins was Welsh - he wasn't English

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      the only book i have by enoch powell is the one where he controvershally argures that Mathew was the primary gospel (contrary to more obvious Mark) Of course they could have been relatively concurrent & intermingled or Q? He wasnt really suited to politics,or perhaps voters prefer dishonest fakes & liars-USA is a step ahead in that i think... Alec Dougles Hume mentioned,shortly b4 losing election that TV would encourage best actors rather than politians-he looked terrible on Tv-like a skull.Radio audience thought nixon beat kennedy in debate -TV audiences opposite -Nixon too macho to wear make up.Nixon knew election fixed by Kennedys dad ,but for sake of his future relection or sake of country keep quite.i think there was a quote by Joe Kennedy saying that the amount he paid he was expecting a landslide!

  • @Viewer-discretion-is-advised7
    @Viewer-discretion-is-advised7 5 років тому +16

    I'm so envious of the way things were back then the way people spoke and people debated the things that mattered, and it was shown in an unbiased manner, England was English proud of its culture and history and not full of immigrants no diversity muticultral problems that we face today the imported problem that we the British people never asked for or wanted. Enoch Powell was right and if only he had become prime minister could we of changed the atrocity Britain is today.

    • @mythinktube
      @mythinktube 5 років тому +3

      I couldn’t agree more!!

  • @charleshavilland7106
    @charleshavilland7106 Рік тому +5

    Fascinating how well they respect each other and have an intelligible conversation, and everything said so relevant even today. Inflation wipes out the middle classes. The richest become richer, and the poor become poorer. Back then 6% was 'serious' today (2023) it is over 10%! Governments must be restricted from printing money at will - it is a stealth tax that has delayed effect once it is balanced by the savings of the poor.

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Рік тому

      The banks own and fund the governments though, infact they pretty much through their family dynasty bloodlines own everything in the entire world. To deal with the problem of usury, you need to remove those that want it there.

  • @tarakb7606
    @tarakb7606 4 роки тому +8

    What a difference between the likes of Powell and Jenkins and the nonentities who are currently in charge.

  • @LaggardlySort
    @LaggardlySort 4 роки тому +5

    Would you believe that those interviews were on the streets of London? What a place it was once.

  • @Sionnach1601
    @Sionnach1601 4 роки тому +5

    After this life is through for me, I would dearly love to sit with Leviathans like Powell and a small gathering of his peers, watching our abysmal attempts at political discussion shows and interviews, to hear these Giants' opinions on today's lot.

  • @DBIVUK
    @DBIVUK 6 років тому +19

    From about 15 minutes in, you can clearly hear Enoch Powell closing in on a policy of monetarism - still a fairly obscure economic doctrine. Here he defends the Heath government, but when Heath did a u-turn it became the centre of his criticism.

    • @myroseaccount
      @myroseaccount 5 років тому

      Powell was a member of the Mont Pellerin society. Google it and you'll understand why he had this view and where it came from.

    • @DJ_K666
      @DJ_K666 4 роки тому +1

      Also back then people were paid cash weekly via their pay packet (which was an actual packet i.e. an envelope handed to them every Friday) rather than directly to their bank account monthly.

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      not obscure at all (kind of wrongly redefined into political term slur of torys) Marx & Mao were monetarists-In very simple terms just means if eg have gold based currency & lots of gold discovered prices go up-same with fiat currency

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK 3 роки тому

      @@adamtal7569 Monetarism isn't anything like obscure now, but it was in 1970.

  • @justinrichards2836
    @justinrichards2836 2 роки тому +3

    0:53 I want this man to be my grandfather....

  • @grumpyoldman8661
    @grumpyoldman8661 5 років тому +6

    Today's politicians are simply not in the same intellectual league, and lack their articulacy, which (in my opinion) can be traced to the decline of our educational system, and the ideological 'anti-elitism' drive. It isn't just Parliament it runs throughout British cultural institutions. Look at RADA (for example) which ceased teaching their students Received Pronunciation, with lamentable results in the world of acting. Again there is the BBC and its announcers with their wide range of accents, interesting in themselves, but one misses the authoritative neutral tones of BBC English.

  • @BoboDoboRobo
    @BoboDoboRobo 5 років тому +4

    I BOUGHT TWO PORK CHOPS THEYVE GONE UP SIXPENCE SINCE LAST WEEK

  • @kronossonork6994
    @kronossonork6994 5 років тому +3

    No deal is better than any deal.

  • @terencerollins7917
    @terencerollins7917 3 місяці тому

    How I wish I could articulate a point and argue with the eloquence of Enoch Powell.

  • @margaretlythgoe4051
    @margaretlythgoe4051 10 місяців тому

    Nigel farage reminds me of Enoch Powell absolutely brilliant

  • @grimmfan5345
    @grimmfan5345 5 років тому +13

    Once were a true nation

    • @rohanbansal2324
      @rohanbansal2324 5 років тому +1

      Now merely a country, ashes of its glorious past.

  • @formxshape
    @formxshape Рік тому +2

    This video should be used to teach English… to the English of 2023.

  • @seanpennatgmail
    @seanpennatgmail 5 років тому +30

    Wow. Around 20:00 - Powell was exactly right about the efficacy of monetarism. But Jenkins is exactly right about the social cost of monetarism.
    We shall never see their like again.

    • @chrish2359
      @chrish2359 5 років тому +5

      seanpennatgmail Indeed. Now we have Chris grayling and Diane Abbott. God help us

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      @J LD check out Mark Blyth (lefty) intelligent economist....with a sense of humour..& predictive power

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +1

      @J LD What he recommended was as short term solution. (Hayak predicted long term stagflation several decades b4 happen! which was considered impossible by keynsians).. Schacht was for a time loved for his role in the German "economic miracle", A myth ( Ponzi scheme- only sustainable by warfare & stealing) only believed by extreme right & left

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      @@chrish2359 too cruel couldnt abbot be minister for mathematics & Defunding police

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      & only getting job cos black women who shags leader( thou she probably lost the last position) ....Dont worry i think USA 'arris may be copycat

  • @skellertons113
    @skellertons113 7 місяців тому

    24.10,"Goverments are the servants of the People, not the Masters," classic, I wish this was true now. Otherwise, a proper, intelligent debate with Robert Kee as the Chair, the type of which we do not see much of nowadays.

  • @rutherfojr
    @rutherfojr 4 роки тому +2

    Educational intellectual and civilised.

  • @dl4350
    @dl4350 2 роки тому +1

    id love to hear an audiobook narrated by either of these 2

  • @paulmurphy42
    @paulmurphy42 4 місяці тому

    At the end Robert Kee says, "I'm afraid that will have to be for the next programme", (he was referring to the link between unemployment and inflation) - was there a next programme? I can't find it in your list of videos...But thanks for uploading, an excellent trip down memory lane!

  • @elizabethannegrey6285
    @elizabethannegrey6285 2 роки тому +1

    Wage increases: what is claimed is NOT what is awarded. The majority of people interviewed on price increases were elderly (pensioners) whose fixed income is
    devalued by “rat bites” of inflation. In one hand and out the other with wage increases. Money loses value while in one’s pocket!

  • @cossackhistorian7425
    @cossackhistorian7425 5 років тому +8

    When politicians actually cared about people...

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +1

      & honest & time to debate -now it is more 5min or even 2min to answer ( teleprompters, shouldnt we be told whose words they speak, or/& sponsored by? Bejing Biden refused earpiece inspection & drug test b4 debate. $450,000 earNing when VP, next year $11,000,000.......thanks %50 son

  • @allanchalmers9778
    @allanchalmers9778 2 роки тому

    Good to see nothing changes.

  • @timhoward5863
    @timhoward5863 Рік тому +1

    Look at what we have lost. And weep.

  • @nyedoherty1562
    @nyedoherty1562 4 роки тому +1

    Imagine having something good to say about your opponent.

  • @emanueldavid7174
    @emanueldavid7174 4 роки тому +1

    I like the way he categorized the housewife as “the consumer” .

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +2

      maybe it is a cultural think....many men give £ to wife to look after.........e.g went round friends house -uni science lecturer to go down pub....he asked his wife for money..she didnt give him too much ! p.s. general most consumer decision's women do shopping & can influence expenditure-last i heard in uk was about 60 % f40% m

  • @brotherhoodz97
    @brotherhoodz97 3 роки тому +1

    knock knock, we want enoch!

  • @ysgol3
    @ysgol3 3 роки тому +2

    Jenkins predicting perfectly how disastrous monetarism would turn out to be when Thatcher tried it, under the influence of Powell and others, after 1979. Monetarism, as advocated by Powell and those others, is now of course completely discredited.

  • @yingyang1008
    @yingyang1008 3 роки тому

    Incredible how fast the decline was in Great Britain, from empire to poor man of Europe in about 15 years
    But they still had great statesman around, from the old days, strange time

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 Рік тому

    7:10 According to Mark Blyth, the stagflation of the 1970s had, as its inertial aspect, the full employment in the developed nations. One year after this interview the US would end the Gold Standard; 3 years later there would be the first Oil crisis and 6 years later the second oil crisis. After that there were riots and rolling blackouts in London.

  • @firstnationbrit6365
    @firstnationbrit6365 3 роки тому

    Can you believe that BBC journalist would not treat an ordinary person with utter contempt. Only because Enoch was on our side.

  • @danielg7204
    @danielg7204 Рік тому +1

    Here we go again! 2023 :)

    • @evilcraftknife5705
      @evilcraftknife5705 Рік тому +1

      Who would've thought that inflating the money supply(2020-22) by printing devalues the pound in your pocket.

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Рік тому

      @@evilcraftknife5705 Money is a worthless con by the (((small black hat people))). Only goods and services that build communities and national industry have value. If people were rewarded based on what they do for community and national industry, rather than some arbitrary system of valuation that is artificially inflated until it bursts, taking everything of real value with it, then we would start to recover and rebuild our sabotaged and enslaved nations.

    • @toastedterps
      @toastedterps Рік тому

      What is money? A store of value and a medium of exchange. If services have value as you say, how do you propose exchanging that value if money and valuation systems are arbitrary? Valuation systems are just relationships between known parties. If I don't like the price, I take my business elsewhere or seek a lower price from yourself. We eventually work out a price and all is well or no business is done. Now suppose you don't use money and you seek the labour/service of others for nothing, how do you incentivise them to do it? And have you heard of slavery?
      The ones at the top are the ones breaking the rules. Useless idiots are printing it on orders and ignorance while those above pulling the strings are swimming in it. The inflation is not part of the free market, that's the socialism of the side of your consensus.
      What is a reward for providing value if not money?@@EgoShredder

  • @mus139
    @mus139 Рік тому

    They should see the prices now?

  • @CyberspacedLoner
    @CyberspacedLoner 4 роки тому

    back then in 1970 Progressive Economic Policies had been in place 25 years since 1945, now in 2020 Neo-Liberal Economic Policies have been in place 41 years since 1979, what are the results ?!

  • @22Clearwater
    @22Clearwater 3 роки тому +1

    Proper politicians, reasoned civilised debate. Impartial host. Look at the fools we have in charge now........

  • @alexanderlawson1649
    @alexanderlawson1649 4 роки тому +2

    Why was an intelligent debate like this broadcast to the UK public. Maybe the public were better educated back then. Its a mystery, lets get back to BLM and all the other pointless crap.

  • @cnevill2
    @cnevill2 Рік тому

    Are the people being interviewed on the street at the start of this vid real or just the Monty Python cast in disguise?

    • @evilcraftknife5705
      @evilcraftknife5705 Рік тому +1

      Monty Python regularly reflected the quirks and idiosyncrasies of British life.

  • @Rambobambo007
    @Rambobambo007 Рік тому +1

    2023 Indian priminster Pakistani Lord mayor scotish leadership is Pakistani 😂😂😂

  • @gorgeousaldo2007
    @gorgeousaldo2007 5 років тому +136

    Two very different men having a civil conversation. These men were giants of British politics. We don't have anything like them today - just a succession of bland nobodies.

  • @SuperFerdie1965
    @SuperFerdie1965 5 років тому +250

    Jesus Christ. Listen to Powell and contrast it with the pygmies we have in Parliament now.

    • @dellawrence4323
      @dellawrence4323 4 роки тому +12

      Research Enoch Powell, he was an intellectual giant that is why Heath got rid of him, he was terrified of his intelligence and he knew Powell could see right through him.

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 4 роки тому +2

      Del Lawrence yep Powell suspected that heath was a internationalist, almost a communist, and his eagerness to get us into Europe sort of confirmed this for Powell.

    • @silverbullet2008bb
      @silverbullet2008bb 4 роки тому +3

      Compare listening to Powell to having the BS of Afua Hirsh and Owen Jones shoved down your throat all the time.

    • @silverbullet2008bb
      @silverbullet2008bb 4 роки тому +2

      ​@@dellawrence4323 Heath was a wrong 'un. He was into little boys.

    • @acropolisnow9466
      @acropolisnow9466 4 роки тому +1

      @@silverbullet2008bb unreal innit. It really does depress me.

  • @ChristinaMitchell-USA
    @ChristinaMitchell-USA 3 роки тому +65

    When Roy Jenkins said '6% inflation was inconvenient', I could not imagine a better example of British understatement.

    • @KaiserFranzJosefI
      @KaiserFranzJosefI 6 місяців тому

      Inflation would reach 20% by the late 1970s, so it was just a bit inconvenient at the time

    • @highdefboxing8056
      @highdefboxing8056 3 місяці тому

      @@KaiserFranzJosefI Actually, that would be the mid-70s. 1975 to be precise, when inflation actually peaked at slightly above 24%. By the late 70s it was down to 13-15%.

  • @adamholiday3450
    @adamholiday3450 Рік тому +25

    Amazing to see intelligent politicians engaging in civilised debate. Nothing like the cheap point scoring career politicians of today.

    • @adamholiday3450
      @adamholiday3450 Рік тому

      I don't think they even mentioned the names of their parties once.

  • @Sensorium19
    @Sensorium19 5 років тому +119

    Listening to these men restores the intellect.

  • @islaarundel3741
    @islaarundel3741 5 років тому +83

    What a fascinating historical document. Clear and honest communication from serious, thoughtful men- so sad that this type of dialogue is only to be found now in old black and white reels.

  • @davidkennedy6251
    @davidkennedy6251 6 років тому +168

    Two remarkable men, political figures of real intellect and ability. I don't see many of today's politicians in that same light.

    • @rogercliftonville-acton1574
      @rogercliftonville-acton1574 6 років тому +17

      They'd never get elected. People prefer sweet lies over hard truths.
      Given people in this country and their utter inability to consider voting anything other than blue to keep the reds out and red to keep the blues out, it seems quite reasonable to say 'we get the government we deserve'

    • @londoncalling151
      @londoncalling151 2 роки тому

      Masons.

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Рік тому +2

      Today the Tory Party has such intellectual giants such as Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak.

    • @tneita3166
      @tneita3166 Рік тому

      ​@@rogercliftonville-acton1574 Roger, the thing is "yesterday sweet lies" has become today's"hard truth", or don't you see it that way, just saying,,,.

    • @daviocampi6951
      @daviocampi6951 Рік тому

      ​@@jean6872In hindsight intellectual dwarfs who are not wholly conservative and lack integrity. Liabilities and not rewarding the tax payer. Either through incompetence or liberalism.

  • @richardclarke376
    @richardclarke376 5 років тому +62

    Be a brave man who'd debate Powell - Professor of Classics age 25, then the youngest Brigadier in the British Army

    • @wutang6020
      @wutang6020 5 років тому +9

      Richard Clarke yes and from a private to brigadier!

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 роки тому +4

      You clearly know nothing about Roy Jenkins then. He himself was an intellectual giant, and consistently used to wipe the floor with Powell in parliament.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 роки тому +5

      @Vir Nobilis nope - Jenkins had the reputation of being the supreme parliamentary debater of his era and was famous for the way in which he totally punctured Powell in parliament. On one famous occasion, Powell had made one of his highly complex logical, "glass tower" arguments that he was famous for, and Jenkins crushed him by simply saying "since the right honourable gentlemen always starts with a false premise, he is always bound to come to the wrong conclusion." Powell famously disliked Jenkins intensely because of this. When asked whom he disliked more, Ted Heath or Roy Jenkins, he said "well, I don't want to punch Ted heath in the nose"

    • @weefeatures
      @weefeatures 4 роки тому +9

      @@zeddeka "since the right honourable gentlemen always starts with a false premise, he is always bound to come to the wrong conclusion." A sophistic and vacuous statement unless the premise is proven to be incorrect. Stating something is wrong is not disproving it.

    • @christophmahler
      @christophmahler 4 роки тому +2

      @@weefeatures
      "Stating something is wrong is not disproving it (...)"
      Well refuted - whether Jenkins may have had valid arguments or not (as here, warning of monocausal and radical approaches).
      Today, public debate is solely based on _moralization_ of a position ("it's morally wrong") and personal attack, again based on _moralizations_ - as in the early phase of the French Revolution.
      The latter lead to civil war and Europe wide state war - before it was restored to a state, arguably less 'progressive' and succesful than during the late 'ancient regime'.

  • @peterbradshaw8018
    @peterbradshaw8018 6 років тому +246

    Enoch had a sharp mind.

    • @billygiles3276
      @billygiles3276 5 років тому +34

      It’s shameful how he’s portrayed as some knuckle dragging white nationalist by the media

    • @EdMcF1
      @EdMcF1 4 роки тому +25

      A Professor of Greek at 25, he went from Private to Brigadier in WW2.

    • @romeisfallingagain
      @romeisfallingagain 4 роки тому +23

      This country has fallen because men like him never got to rule it.

    • @dellawrence4323
      @dellawrence4323 4 роки тому +13

      He was an intellectual giant, that is why Heath got rid of him, Enoch knew what the plan was and he has been proven right.

    • @dralanblacker8471
      @dralanblacker8471 4 роки тому +3

      Most nazis has sharp minds

  • @hermanirishman4525
    @hermanirishman4525 4 роки тому +43

    A very civilised discussion from a bygone era. Sigh.

  • @chrish2359
    @chrish2359 5 років тому +127

    Two incredibly smart politicians. No MP now is close to their level.

    • @HuxleyWasRight
      @HuxleyWasRight 5 років тому +15

      all they care about these days is PR and virtue signalling to make themselves look "right on" as opposed to doing whats right for the long term.

    • @johnnyhammer
      @johnnyhammer 4 роки тому +7

      Rees-Mogg?

    • @chrish2359
      @chrish2359 4 роки тому +9

      @@johnnyhammer I agree he is one of the smartest of the current Parliament but he isn't comparable to these two. This is evidenced by Rees-Mogg's book on Victorians which was largely ridiculed in comparison to the highly regarded works of Jenkins on Gladstone and Churchill and Powell's poetry and gospel commentary.

  • @dean1039
    @dean1039 5 років тому +99

    Ah, Great Britain. That ancient, proud nation that no longer exists.

    • @sammysouth8372
      @sammysouth8372 4 роки тому +3

      Dean Ah, Great Britain that sucker of the world’s blood that happily no longer exists.

    • @sammysouth8372
      @sammysouth8372 4 роки тому

      stephen morris what difference does it make? Remember the old saying the sun never sets on the fucking British Empire? No sir think of any trouble spot in the world and the blame can probably be blamed on English misdeeds.

    • @kloschuessel773
      @kloschuessel773 4 роки тому +12

      Dean yeah.
      Im german and i miss it.
      Sad days.

    • @duncanmiller1288
      @duncanmiller1288 4 роки тому +3

      @@sammysouth8372 that sounds a bit wacist to me sonny

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +7

      You mean the greatest empire/commonwealth of all time...that destroyed/disolved itself voluntarily to abolish slavery & single handed stood alone against axis National Socialism ?

  • @cmvalim2778
    @cmvalim2778 4 роки тому +39

    Just imagine if her majesty’s government and opposition could debate like this today 😢

  • @teresaharrison5773
    @teresaharrison5773 3 роки тому +13

    Roy Jenkins "He hasn't opened his mouth about this"
    Enoch Powell "I haven't been invited".
    I miss good manners as well as reasoned logical debate such as this.

  • @23rdjune
    @23rdjune 5 років тому +102

    Can you imagine putting these two up in a debate with a couple of today's politicians, like for example Dianne Abbott and Anna Soubry? Now that would be fun!

    • @dicktiger68
      @dicktiger68 5 років тому +11

      It would be slaughter!

    • @stc40
      @stc40 4 роки тому +8

      @@dicktiger68 Diane Abbott and Anna Soubry.....🤣🤣🤣🤣 You'd get more sense and intelligence from my goldfish......!!!

    • @romeisfallingagain
      @romeisfallingagain 4 роки тому +4

      anyone that votes for a female politician, quite frankly, deserves everything they get...

    • @LaggardlySort
      @LaggardlySort 4 роки тому +2

      Neither of them are fit to shine the shoes of either Jenkins or Powell

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 4 роки тому +1

      UNFAIR AND POINTLESS. MORE LIKE REES-MOGG AND BLIAR

  • @harmlessdrudge
    @harmlessdrudge 5 років тому +33

    I enjoy listening to both Roy Jenkins and Enoch Powell. They were both highly intelligent and principled politicians.

  • @Sionnach1601
    @Sionnach1601 4 роки тому +23

    This is like a stimulating exercise for the brain, watching these three characters speaking.
    I also immensely enjoyed seeing two politicians agreeing on points because they respected Truth, but also out of a sense of sporting fairness between two combatants.
    This whole aspect of English life and culture seems to be completely gone, and they are now replaced by actors, actors with vastly inferior intellects and diction.
    Though I'm an Irishman, and detested the barbarity of British rule over my forebears, (I am sorry, it had to be said), but I can easily admire this aspect of English people and culture; and so I take my hat off to these intellectual heavyweights, and the civilised, seemingly high morality and character they espoused.
    Though they may have been rogues, as is all too often the case with the politician, I don't know; but they struck me as very fine men of very fine character, and I truly wish that English culture and character had not changed so much, so VASTLY. Even their diction, which was so complex, allowing such beautiful precision; their metre, so nicely measured, and to include their intellect which, I believe, was as fine as could be found anywhere in the World, at any time.
    Their loss, this culture, is a sore loss to the World as a whole, to be replaced with multicultural, "diversity", and considerable mediocrity. I weep inside for this loss.
    It is as if Giants have left the World.

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Рік тому

      I confess they left me behind. They appeared to know what they were talking about.

    • @Volgan16666
      @Volgan16666 Рік тому +1

      @@jean6872 as it does every worthless behind that sits in Westminster today and for at least the last thirty years.

  •  5 років тому +15

    They could form complete sentences way back when!

  • @ajay999999
    @ajay999999 5 років тому +44

    2 pork chops and a tin of salmon. How we used to live.

  • @jamesguy1030
    @jamesguy1030 5 років тому +36

    Enoch Powell was a very intelligent man and would have been A Great prime minister for Great Britain .
    We certainly would not be in this mess if we had listened to the Wise words of Enoch Powell.
    We would not have the Never ended Race battles we se constantly on our televisions

    • @jamesguy1030
      @jamesguy1030 5 років тому +1

      Ishaan Rahman ~ Yeah,
      You make some very interesting points.
      if you haven’t already seen it before,
      Please check out the amazing documentary series called =
      “Europa The Last Battle”
      Part 5 is fascinating and
      Part 8 is mind blowing !
      i hope that this explains what i meant by Racial conflict / Replacement

    • @_MrAvocado_
      @_MrAvocado_ 5 років тому +2

      @@ishaanrahman9880 Why is Stomzy currently helping fellow blacks into Cambridge....doesn't he realise that all the people at Cambridge share the same "British values" as him. (a white person behaving in this way would, of course, be deemed a racist) Why can't he "move beyond race"? he can't for the same reason you care more about your family than mine even though we might have the same "values" this is because humans are tribal animals (Whites are actually the least tribal) it's why political parties field "diverse" candidates in "diverse" areas.

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 3 роки тому +1

      I couldn’t agree more! If Powell had been PM this beautiful island would still be in the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. But no! Look what the foreign filth has done! 😢

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      @@southlondon86 How many would you cover up for ,on a cost -benefit analysis?

  • @Phil-tb2yz
    @Phil-tb2yz 7 місяців тому +5

    Shopping that cost £1 more in 1970 is equal to about £20 more in 2024. No different now as it was then.

  •  4 роки тому +5

    Looking back from 2020 it seems like Enoch Powell was a prophet.

  • @hermanPla
    @hermanPla 6 років тому +84

    Back when the Pre-Thatcher inflation was the worst problem that Britain was facing.....

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 5 років тому +2

      It still is and it’s being purposefully done by the Bank of England

    • @Judewilkinsonjfk
      @Judewilkinsonjfk 5 років тому +4

      I think you ought not to underestimate the seriousness of the economic circumstances in which they found themselves.

    • @NyalBurns
      @NyalBurns 4 роки тому +1

      Humanforfreedom 95 no where near to the level is is today

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 роки тому +4

      Inflation destabilised the whole economy. As Roy Jenkins rightly points out, it was the poorest people who suffered most from inflation.

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +2

      @J LD i think at one point about25%..Relative prices can often be far more important than random basket of total prices.......e.g cost of basic food essentials ;cost of house/mortgage relative to wages.....There was a time in late 50s early 60s when a average working class man, perhaps skilled or perhaps older just promotion throu experience; could get a sometimes very low interst10r mortgage on a £1,000 house (i am sitting,sleeping on a 1963 all leather soffer that i was told cost £100 NEW-calm down ,i got it for free)...............................................In 1996 i & others moved into a £60,000 similar shared house rented-relatively cheap excellent value Honestly it was cheapest on market. Left /evicted after about 9 yrs having paid about £60,000 in rent ;& property worth increased in value to at least £120,000....Since then 15 yr later i guess those figures have more than doubled again..... When rent=mortgage how are u supposed to save for house, flat, or garage...i think i saved enough for a delux wheelie-bin........Good luck

  • @shanemckenna9416
    @shanemckenna9416 5 років тому +23

    Jenkins sounds more like a Tory accent-wise. You’d never guess he was a miner’s son from South Wales. It’s what going to Oxford does to you.

    • @onetwo6064
      @onetwo6064 5 років тому

      Amanda Hughes very well said

    • @tomthetinker1024
      @tomthetinker1024 4 роки тому +9

      Someone once remarked to Nye Bevan, born the next town over, that Roy Jenkins did not seem ambitious enough. Bevan replied that, "anyone who came from South Wales and taught themselves to speak like that is clearly very ambitious."

  • @nacholibre1962
    @nacholibre1962 4 роки тому +31

    Enoch Powell: The greatest Prime Minister that Britain never had. Singularly brilliant and a masterful statesman.

    • @unknownkingdom
      @unknownkingdom 3 роки тому +3

      Not if you are PoC, a woman. LGBTQ+, disabled, etc

    • @notsuretbh7215
      @notsuretbh7215 2 роки тому +1

      Thank God he never did or would've had a chance to become at least Tory leader

    • @sorrysirmygunisoneba
      @sorrysirmygunisoneba Рік тому +6

      @@unknownkingdom what is a woman?

    • @tneita3166
      @tneita3166 Рік тому

      ​@@sorrysirmygunisonebaaldor, you mean YOU don't know,,umm, Go & ask your MOTHER,if no answer then try this, WOMAN= A MENSTRUATING ,CHILD BEARING HUMAN BEING,,if by now you still don't know then maybe U R beyond help in that regard's,,,.

    • @richardwillford2418
      @richardwillford2418 Рік тому

      True. And the same could be said of Jenkins.

  • @TheMiseryIndex
    @TheMiseryIndex 3 роки тому +65

    Imagine Diane Abbott trying to hold her own against such sharp minds and experts in articulation- she wouldn't last 2 minutes.

    • @mkkravist11
      @mkkravist11 2 роки тому

      …..they’d be white, privileged and racist within 10 seconds.

    • @paulinekeppey6105
      @paulinekeppey6105 Рік тому +5

      30 seconds

    • @karenfaulkner5922
      @karenfaulkner5922 Рік тому +8

      2 seconds🙃

    • @MarkRyanSchulz
      @MarkRyanSchulz Рік тому +11

      She'd just call them racists and then pretend that all their statements are stupid and beneath her.. and her constituents would think she showed them and continue to vote for her. It's not the quality of the politicians that has declined; it is merely symptomatic of the decline of the average British voter - just as Powell predicted.

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Рік тому +1

      Racism and misogyny is no argument.

  • @emmettkellysearth5972
    @emmettkellysearth5972 5 років тому +28

    That old man wearing the cap commenting starting at 0:54 is the hero of the 1970s.

    • @humanforfreedom9583
      @humanforfreedom9583 5 років тому +10

      “It’s gone up 6 pence!” Lol imagine if he saw today!!!!!!

    • @DJ_K666
      @DJ_K666 4 роки тому +3

      @@humanforfreedom9583 Heh I wonder what you could have got for 6 pence in 1970. It was still old money back then, just about to change. 6 pence in 1970 is about £1 today

    • @LaggardlySort
      @LaggardlySort 4 роки тому

      Roight ol Naaarfolk boy he is

    • @RPaton
      @RPaton 4 місяці тому

      Almost looked like Ronald Fraser

  • @MrDavey2010
    @MrDavey2010 5 років тому +26

    Truly professional men debating in a civilised way. So different from nowadays where all this has been lost.

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +1

      Possibly when indented truthful unbiased journalists ,were sacrificed for not having political bias....And Amanda Holden gets more headlines for what clothes she has worn in the last week,than any possible debate about e.g any just possibility of Erection Freudian Slip ..i doubt i can say anymore (eg 95% plus media donated to 1 us political party-& cover up laptop news) without being banned

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому

      16% of Biden voters said if they knew, would not have voted for him/Harris

  • @dean1100110
    @dean1100110 5 років тому +17

    I wish I could go back and tell them to explain to them the horrors of London today

    • @dean1100110
      @dean1100110 5 років тому +1

      @@ishaanrahman9880 We have more murders than New York and have you seen the gun laws in the US

  • @eyesofthetiger3568
    @eyesofthetiger3568 3 роки тому +14

    I'm naturalized to a British citizen and I'm proud of it.
    I adore mr. Enoch Powell's.ideas

    • @lawrence142002
      @lawrence142002 2 роки тому +2

      He would've had you sent back to wherever it was you came from, bud.

    • @eyesofthetiger3568
      @eyesofthetiger3568 2 роки тому +5

      @@lawrence142002 That's fine mate..I'm from Europe and I didn't arrive to England by a dinghy! Thanks anyway 🇬🇧

    • @tneita3166
      @tneita3166 Рік тому

      ​@@eyesofthetiger3568 Dinghy, umm, how is the peninsula, just asking,,,.

    • @eyesofthetiger3568
      @eyesofthetiger3568 Рік тому

      @T Neita Ask that question to British Consulate mate who gave me the visa! Besides today, I was in central London. I bet you did not watch and celebrate King Charles.s Cornation!

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Рік тому

      @@lawrence142002 Only non-White Europeans would have been refused to stay, which is fine if the ethnic culture, tradition and genetics of the nation come first and they should.

  • @johnfitzjohn4300
    @johnfitzjohn4300 4 роки тому +14

    POWELL is the only member of parliament that told the truth (and he got sacked for telling the truth)

  • @alanwareham7391
    @alanwareham7391 5 років тому +11

    How many political parties that slagged Enoch off, and threw as much mud as possible ,even though the people weren't even born at the time ,wish that he was their leader now . When you listen to his last statement, it makes a great deal of sense in that " you control your money".Enoch wasn't perfect and I think that he would never have said he was, and of course there are always two ways of looking at any topic ,but the more that you listen to him ,like him or not you must agree that he believed in his country and the people in it.

  • @craiglocker386
    @craiglocker386 5 років тому +10

    Those who the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. And we must be. EP has and will always be pondered and studied, it falls to those who know he was correct to act now.

  • @davidhawk9678
    @davidhawk9678 5 років тому +31

    A different class of debate from the muppets in todays parliament

  • @sacredsoma
    @sacredsoma 5 років тому +137

    I just cant get enough of Enoch, always so sharp and clear

    • @GavinMorris1
      @GavinMorris1 5 років тому

      And, on this subject, on absolutely the wrong side of the argument.

    • @rosecopard7082
      @rosecopard7082 5 років тому +26

      I think he was one of Britain’s greatest men, absolutely brilliant.

    • @nilethomas3839
      @nilethomas3839 5 років тому +3

      Also one of Britain's most racist and bigoted but okay

    • @GavinMorris1
      @GavinMorris1 5 років тому +17

      @@nilethomas3839 How's your Urdu?

    • @nilethomas3839
      @nilethomas3839 5 років тому +2

      Gavin Morris can’t speak a word, why?

  • @gx2music
    @gx2music 5 років тому +81

    Powell. The greatest PM England never had.

    • @halfaworldaway
      @halfaworldaway 4 роки тому

      @Bobby Brennan I would advise re-reading the comment.

    • @charlesrenniemacki
      @charlesrenniemacki 4 роки тому +3

      @Bobby Brennan Yes, you've clearly missed the point Dragon Energy made, haven't you? Let me simplify it for you - Powell. The greatest Prime Minister England never had. Do you get it now???

    • @southlondon86
      @southlondon86 3 роки тому

      If only he had been PM. This beautiful country could still have kept those good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. 😢

  • @PatrickBateman191
    @PatrickBateman191 4 роки тому +27

    It is magnificent to listen to these two men. What class, what knowledge, what intelligence, what command of the English language.

  • @markbateman9222
    @markbateman9222 5 років тому +13

    two intelligent, articulate politicians having a serious debate about serious issues. both made party political points but both men were clearly concerned about the problem under consideration. you have to respect their intellect even if you disagree strongly with them about causes and possible remedies.
    Hats off to the presenter for being willing to take a back seat and let them speak; how different to the ego driven presenters of today! But Robert Kee was always confident in his intellect and didn't feel the need to try and demonstrate it every two minutes!

  • @obamalastname34
    @obamalastname34 3 роки тому +6

    Yow honestly people back then talk with such class. No interrupting and unbiased interview.

  • @arielgarcia1437
    @arielgarcia1437 2 роки тому +31

    I listen to these men whenever I need to hear an intelligent conversation, Roy is outstanding and Enoch sensational. I know I'm not the only one that listens to these men off and on.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b 5 років тому +32

    Powell, as a classical liberal, understands that the increase in the money supply causes inflation. If he'd become PM we would live in a very different country- our economic recovery would have started years before Thatcher and we'd never have been dragged into the EU.

    • @fuckfannyfiddlefart
      @fuckfannyfiddlefart 4 роки тому

      Classical liberal means state capitalist elitist.
      Screw powel and Thatcher, all they did was increase unemployment, destroy British industry, sell of the assets, and see the share of profit go entirely to the rich and retried.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 4 роки тому +3

      ​@@fuckfannyfiddlefart No it doesn't. And when Thatcher came into office, the post-war consensus economy was already a dead horse, which we had to stop flogging.
      And perhaps you should look at the effects of flooding the lower end of the employment market with cheap migrant labour which the Left love to do.

    • @lupinthethird5784
      @lupinthethird5784 3 роки тому +2

      Powell was a classical conservative

    • @adamtal7569
      @adamtal7569 3 роки тому +1

      @@fuckfannyfiddlefart& blair copied her polices! PPE to the max ,sold off NHS & rented back at ludicrous costs that future govt.s has to still pay(dont mention the war)

    • @jamsheadaziz3999
      @jamsheadaziz3999 2 роки тому

      Two words you used Thatcher and economic recovery. Try telling that to the millions of workers whose jobs disappeared eg steel workers, car industry, ship yards, mining. Vast majority of workers were from northern England and Scotland, who were unemployed. 3 million unemployed. Riots breaking out all over England in '81. Dark times for thousands of families.

  • @dny9394
    @dny9394 3 роки тому +13

    Dear old 'Woy' Jenkins, patrician political failure bigtime but right at home in
    the EU with a massive expenses account, 4 hour lunches of lobster, truffle
    and the finest of cheeses washed gently down with, as he put it,
    "a fine Claret". Right at home. Sold his country for a bottle of wine.
    An English Politician. Enoch? One of the greatest. A giant versus a pigmy.

  • @trtr9626
    @trtr9626 4 роки тому +14

    Not one of our current MP’s have half the intelligence of these 2

    • @MrDanielfff777
      @MrDanielfff777 3 роки тому +1

      JRM

    • @simongaines7347
      @simongaines7347 3 роки тому +1

      I doubt the current parliament in it's entirety could match either of them for intellect or articulacy.

    • @trtr9626
      @trtr9626 3 роки тому

      @@simongaines7347 agreeed

  • @chrisevans5259
    @chrisevans5259 4 роки тому +14

    All Mr Powell ever set out to do was to protect and maintain all our proper British values and heritage ,...and not lose our identity and British nationals

  • @rolytnz
    @rolytnz 3 роки тому +6

    I feel smarter having watched this. Watching two people who are true subject matter experts articulating the issues and where the problems are, and even where a path to resolution lies. Where they differ in opinion is debated and respected. Look at the Clown Circus that is politics today. So many politicians worldwide could learn so much from the way these chaps conduct themselves. The presenter is about asking relevant questions that are not loaded trying to push some preset ideology, and he does not interrupt either. Nor does he need to, Mr Powell and Mr Jenkins keep their answers on topic, succinct, and concise. Superb watching.

  • @lewiskx20
    @lewiskx20 2 роки тому +7

    Nice to see two different views debated respectfully without bias and drama hype by the media.
    'He hasn't opened his mouth on this yet'
    'I haven't been invited too'
    Pure British class, so far from today's era

  • @cultureofcritique9735
    @cultureofcritique9735 4 роки тому +21

    Christ, Powell's intelligence and charisma are both off the charts. It's nothing short of a tragedy that he never became Prime Minister.

  • @gorgeousgeorge3947
    @gorgeousgeorge3947 Рік тому +3

    Can you imagine a UK Labour politician today speaking up for ordinary people and repudiating inflation as Jenkins does in this video? Or a Tory pointing out the folly of his own government's inflationary policies? There's no politician of the calibre of a Jenkins or a Powell in Britain today.

    • @evilcraftknife5705
      @evilcraftknife5705 Рік тому +1

      They didn't live in a world of mass media and soundbites. They could afford to be honest.

  • @harrynewiss4630
    @harrynewiss4630 Рік тому +3

    Both very smart. In this case, Powell correct, Jenkins wrong

  • @robbieross8591
    @robbieross8591 Рік тому +2

    Looking at the old folk it did make me giggle, not that they were suffering due to high costs, of course not, but rather the way people used to sound and look 50 years ago! They don’t make them like that anymore. Notice the lack of diversity back then too. Now the same interviewer would be talking to all sorts of immigrants. Not saying it’s a good or bad thing, just an observation.

  • @MB-wv6sg
    @MB-wv6sg 5 років тому +8

    Intelligent politicians..........aah yes, I remember them.

  • @waynepower766
    @waynepower766 4 роки тому +6

    Wow what a difference to the fools we have

  • @markwithers7730
    @markwithers7730 4 роки тому +8

    2 very articulate men who know their stuff, please don’t bring an audience back to question time!

  • @thoskel1
    @thoskel1 4 роки тому +10

    How good it is to see two very astute polticians in debate without interupting each other.