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Small-scale one, but what would happen if he slightly toned down the rhetoric at a couple key points:
1) He adds in a paragraph emphasizing his historic opposition to colonialism and stating his opposition to mass net migration as a natural consequence of that:
instead reads as
2) He removes the part that sounds like he's blaming African Americans (most of whom were brought in as slaves) for the US' poor race relations so that
instead reads as
Other parts of the speech that could be seen as going beyond principled opposition to mass unbalanced immigration are also toned down or reworded, but the general policy proposals and about 70% of the words are verbatim.
1) He adds in a paragraph emphasizing his historic opposition to colonialism and stating his opposition to mass net migration as a natural consequence of that:
Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly...For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
instead reads as
Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. When Churchill stood silent during the massacre at Hola in Kenya, in which brutal domination was exercised over a native people in the name of Britain, I stood up. And I will stand up anywhere in the world, including here at home, where a people's self-determination and freedom from outside domination is being threatened in the name of our Kingdom. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly...For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. If we go beyond mere equality to the transformation of Britain through massive and unbalanced immigration, we will be repeating the same horrors that still scar our former colonies. The way to address the wrongs which have been imposed upon India, Kenya, and Nigeria in the service of the Crown is not, under any circumstance, to impose the same on us. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
2) He removes the part that sounds like he's blaming African Americans (most of whom were brought in as slaves) for the US' poor race relations so that
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood". That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
instead reads as
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood". We are a small and crowded isle, and we cannot house everyone from the former colonies who wishes to live here, or else we will turn into a failed nation. We will continue to support and educate people from the Commonwealth, of course, but we cannot stand a massive imbalance of migration with it. There is no personal hatred in my message, just an awareness of Britain's limitations - the NHS no longer is in desperate need of manpower and many Commonwealth immigrants would end up in utter destitution as we cannot provide for a population of 100 million. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
Other parts of the speech that could be seen as going beyond principled opposition to mass unbalanced immigration are also toned down or reworded, but the general policy proposals and about 70% of the words are verbatim.