Yes, he was a formidable politician and powerful speaker, regardless if you support leftwing nationalism or not.
What one has to take into account in relation to his captivating speech is that it was 44 years ago. He worked as a politician all of his life and was an advocate of a multi-speed Europe. Funnily enough though, A multi speed Europe is is what the EU is at present. Hence the reason why Britain has its sovereignty and control of its own borders etc etc. Two examples would be that the UK chose not to be part of the Euro zone ( kept the £ and opted out of the €) and another example would be that it opted out of the Schengen area ( has clearly defined borders that can’t be crossed without having a valid passport) And so the UK government can very strictly control EU immigration if it wants to.
This, is one of the things that was so dishonest about the leave campaign, people were lead to believe that our EU membership meant that we had no control over our borders, they even whent as far to imply that millions and millions of Turkish immigrants were about to descend into the UK ..... sheer madness! Nobody ever mentioned that EU immigration represents only 30% of our governments chosen total. And of that small percentage our government can already choose to means test EU immigrants to prevent any slack lazy peasants from staying here and being a burden on our country .
Only..... successive UK governments have chosen not to do this. It’s not the EUs failure, it’s our governments that chose not to.
Kindest regards, Olaf