What would Enoch Powell make of Brexit?

On 22 December 1963, the Sunday Times published an article by Enoch Powell in which he had an imaginary conversation with Benjamin Disraeli. Here is my (RR) take on what Powell (EP) would make of Brexit:

Enoch Powell: Have I been proved right, yet?

Richard Ritchie: What did you have in mind? You made quite a few predictions.

EP: On Brexit, of course. It’s still the supreme issue. Even more important than immigration, although I hear that the two are now often spoken of together.

RR: Well, what’s interesting is that it was immigration that brought home to the British electorate what a loss of sovereignty means in practice. Until then, it was all a bit theoretical and nebulous. Ministers sometimes spoke of the things which EU membership prevented them from doing. And business and industry spent all of their time lobbying against EU regulations and directives which they disliked. That, indeed, was the CBI’s main purpose in life.