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More than two in five Brits believe multiculturalism has failed, a new survey has revealed.

Commissioned by anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate, the Yougov poll of 5,200 people also found that 51% of people believe immigration is putting pressure on schools and hospitals.

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And worryingly more than one third of those who took part in the survey believe Islam is a threat to the British way of life.

Nick Lowles, chief executive of Hope Not Hate, said: ‘There is clearly much work to do. Powell’s speech led anti-racism campaigners to mobilise – the anniversary of the speech must do the same.’


According to the Guardian, the poll – which is to be released tomorrow – found that a lot of Brits believe that different communities live separate lives.

Nick Lowles, chief executive of Hope Not Hate, said there is ‘much work to be done’ (Picture: Youtube)

Along with this the survey also found that 43% of respondents think relationships between different communities will deteriorate over the next few years.



Released 50 years after Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, the survey found that multiculturalism on the whole has been an ‘uneven success’, with some areas of the country ‘more integrated than others’.

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Powell’s 1968 speech, in which he said lines such as ‘In this country in fifteen or twenty years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man,’ saw him heavily criticise immigration into the UK.

Tory MP Powell claimed the government was ‘busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre’ by allowing mass immigration and said: ‘As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’

It caused immediate anger at the time it was made, with the Times describing it as an ‘evil speech’. It was blamed for attacks on people of colour and it led to Powell being sacked from the shadow cabinet.

But the recent survey found that 40% of respondents agreed with his ‘warning’.

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