After the second word war, powell is said to have been so devastated that he wanders the streets of london for a whole night in this state of shock and despair. Powe sees this as a great threat and a great challenge to the authentic english nation which has existed on this mainland since time immemorial. But what i tried to do in the book as well was talk about his response to the shrinking and reduction of britain, which is often ignored. And a alot of his, his response to that was to lean on the economic apparatus that governed the british empire to allow britain to be one of the great drivers of financial finance, capital as it
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