Enoch powell had a point The Conservative British politician gave warning, nearly four decades ago, that immigrants were causing such strife that "like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood." That proved to be nonsense, as did his advice that migrants should be encouraged to leave. Had they done so, Britain and other rich countries that depend heavily on foreign labour would be in a dreadful state. But one prediction he made was spot on: that by about now, one in ten people in Britain would be migrants. And indeed, at the last count in 2005, the foreign-born made up 9.7% of the British population.
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