Clever Children

“….Clever Children from

Common Homes like 

his, have to be — 

shall I say, separated  

— from Their Backgrounds….

I say nothing

controversial.”

"I'm not -- easily persuaded 

of a sorrow in the heart 

of A Butcher, carrying

-out his butchery.

This seems, to me, not

a very convincing Tale -

There is a certain... 

zest about The Job --

and I dare say, Henry VIII 

might have told you afterwards, 

how much he regretted 

sending these people

to The Block --”

— Enoch Powell.

The Night Of The Long Knives: 1962.

BBC documentary written and presented by Michael Cockerell, 

about the most notorious cabinet reshuffle in the history of UK politics 

when the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked, with no warning, several long serving cabinet colleagues, 

including his Chancellor of the Exchequer,

Selwyn Lloyd.