Robin Day: So you would say, would you – I hope I am not misrepresenting you – that the question of parliamentary sovereignty and national sovereignty as affected by our membership of the EEC, is the issue on which you would like to see most people have as their reason for voting one way or the other?
Enoch Powell: Yes, for – in peace as in war, it is the great, the ultimate, question for any nation. If we still are a nation. So really I am inviting the British people and have been these many years, to say whether or not they intend still to be a nation.


The Parliamentarians, BBC TV (4 February 1979), from Reflections of a Statesman. The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell (London: Bellew, 1991), p. 263.

Enoch Powell Quotes

Robin Day: So you would say, would you – I hope I am not misrepresenting you – that the question of parliamentary sovereignty and national...

Robin Day: So you would say, would you – I hope I am not misrepresenting you – that the question of parliamentary sovereignty and national...

Robin Day: So you would say, would you – I hope I am not misrepresenting you – that the question of parliamentary sovereignty and national...

Robin Day: So you would say, would you – I hope I am not misrepresenting you – that the question of parliamentary sovereignty and national...