Page "Enoch Powell" Paragraph 94

After the Scarman Report on the riots was published, Powell gave a speech on 10 December in the Commons.

Powell disagreed with Scarman when he said that the black community was alienated because it was economically disadvantaged: the black community was alienated because it was alien.

He claimed tensions would worsen because the nonwhite population was growing: whereas in Lambeth it was 25 %, of those of secondary school age it was 40 %.

Powell said that the government should be honest to the people by telling them in thirty years ' time, the black population of Lambeth would have doubled in size.