
David Maxwell Fyfe
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great BritainWikipedia
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Sep 28, 2026
How Blair’s Constitutional Reforms Broke Britain | David Starkey
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15:14David StarkeyGUEST
On the grounds, he was so rich, he was stupid to vote, stupid to vote to be a member of the Labour Party, though he never crossed the floor.
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15:22David StarkeyGUEST
But anyway, what's striking about Maxwell Fyfe is when he became, and this again tells you something very different about the nature.
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15:33David StarkeyGUEST
of that convention.
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15:34David StarkeyGUEST
You and I can note this.
'Who Owned the Boats?' - SS Empire Windrush Edition
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38:27Pete QuiñonesHOST
Worse, future social and criminal patterns were already being established.
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38:31Pete QuiñonesHOST
In 1954, Home Secretary David Maxwell, David Maxwell Fife, issued a secret memorandum to the cabinet on blacks pimping white women, stating that, quote, figures I have obtained from the Metropolitan Police do show that the number of colored men convicted for this offense is out of all proportion to the number of colored men in London.
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38:53Pete QuiñonesHOST
In other words, per capita.
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38:56Pete QuiñonesHOST
Three months later, he again wrote to the cabinet stressing that, quote, large numbers of colored men are living on national assistance or the immoral earnings of white women, end quote.
'Who Owned the Boats?' - SS Empire Windrush Edition
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33:24Pete QuiñonesHOST
Worse, future social and criminal patterns were already being established.
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33:28Pete QuiñonesHOST
In 1954, Home Secretary David Maxwell, David Maxwell Fife, issued a secret memorandum to the cabinet on blacks pimping white women, stating that, quote, figures I have obtained from the Metropolitan Police do show that the number of colored men convicted for this offense is out of all proportion to the number of colored men in London.
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33:51Pete QuiñonesHOST
In other words, per capita.
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33:54Pete QuiñonesHOST
Three months later, he again wrote to the cabinet stressing that, quote, large numbers of colored men are living on national assistance or the immoral earnings of white women, end quote.