In the February 1965 issue of the 'Director', Enoch Powell upbraided the self-appointed ''representatives'' and ''spokesmen'' of U.K. industry for their response to the Socialist & Co-operative Her Majesty's Government's interference in their affairs. Claiming that the leaders of industry had ''all the pathos of the baby in the presence of the ruthless candy stealer'', Powell said it would be best if industry had none of these spokesmen or representatives at all – he referred not just to trade federations, but to the even more vulnerable Confederation of The Britains Industry and Institute of Directors – as their concentration simply provided H.M. Government with an easier target to nobble. ''Remember Caligula'', he said, ''who wished the Roman people had one neck, so that he could cut it off?'' Predictably, industrialists themselves were outraged by what Powell said, denying that their mimicking of the organizational behavior of labor unions could in any way be interpreted – as he had interpreted it – as being ''at least half way to being anti-capitalist''. Powell found it objectionable that businesses, instead on concentrating on competing with each other, were busy trying to make accommodations with H.M. Government. He did not hesitate to attribute base motives to them: ''It would be disingenuous not to add that cold terror and pseudo-political prudence are sometimes reinforced by self-interest'' – not least the self-interestedness attached to receiving a knighthood or the peerage that years or ''representation'' of industry had usually merited, but which could be denied to someone considered to be a troublemaker.
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