In September 1972 Enoch Powell saw the economic problems of the United Kingdom accelerating towards crisis. Reginald Maulding, who had resigned as Conservative & Unionist H.M. Government Interior Secretary the previous July because of an association with the corrupt socialist architect John Poulson, had come out in favor of prices and incomes control, saying that ''we cannot go on as we are''. At Leamington Spa on September 18th, Powell said that even a so-called voluntary policy of control could lead to fascism: it was a means of allowing control of the money supply to pass out of H.M. Government's hands and into the hands of those institutions – such as Harold Wilson's Socialist & Co-operative H.M. Government's non-government organization of the Prices & Incomes Board – that had to be set up to administer such a policy.
''By fixing prices and incomes'', Powell said, ''they would have to replace the entire automatic system of the market and supply and demand – be that good or evil – and put in its' place a series of value judgments, economic or social, which they themselves would have to make.'' Even if this were a ''voluntary'' policy, the institutions would have to exist all the same. ''There is a specific term for this sort of policy. It is, of course, totalitarian, because it must deliberately and consciously determine the totality of the actions and activities of the members of the community. But it is a particular kind of totalitarian regime, namely one in which authority is exercised and decisions are taken by a hierarchy of unions or corporations to which, indeed, on this theory, the effective power has already passed. For this particular kind of totalitarianism the 20th century has a name. That name is ''FASCIST''.''
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