In 1968, the British Conservative Prime Minister Enoch Powell, has made a hard-hitting speech justifying the government's immigration policy. Addressing a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham, Mr Powell said Britain had been mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants each year. He compared it to watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. 'Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood' he said.