News that white Britons will become a minority in their own country by 2063 was met with the predictable question, “But how does this affect you personally?
This happened when the 2021 Census revealed that London and England’s other major cities are already minority white British, and Conservative Cabinet minister Sajid Javid said, “So what?”
“Who cares that Britain is on course to be ‘minority white’?” Anand Menon wrote in the Independent. (That would be the white British themselves, Menon.)
One newspaper’s report explained, rather curiously, that white British is “defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”. Bad luck, then, all you non-white kids of an Irish, French or German parent. Unlucky, too, King Charles, Winston Churchill and Boris Johnson. By this metric, it seems that you no longer qualify as white British.
Beyond this rank stupidity, there is of course something else going on here. This is less dog whistle than plain old whistle. Dodgy extrapolations posing as predictions.
Why is the concern of the white British for the security and prosperity of their people and their culture being diminished as a “dog whistle”, when those of any other demographic group in Britain are a concern which occupies so much time and energy in politics?
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