Enoch Powell's speech shows that attitudes to other races was very hateful, and common, because in the speech it says, "Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament that his country will not be worth living in for his children." This suggests that people in high power were racist, as well, and that many agreed to this point of view, because that's how they were brought up. They are not doing well with change, so they delude themselves into thinking that they are the superior race, compared to the others. This could also mean that he considers the immigrants, to be lewd. He considers himself, and his "fellow Englishman" to be ordinary, to be at the same level as each
