GB News is facing a backlash after a commentator on one of its shows suggested there is “a genocide happening” against white people in England and that immigrants could “turn” on the white population.
Ofcom, the media regulator, has received a series of complaints about the comments by Thomas Corbett-Dillon.
Corbett-Dillon, who worked on Penny Mordaunt’s unsuccessful Conservative party leadership campaign and who also claims to have advised Boris Johnson, appeared on GB News’s US-based Late Show Live last week.
During a discussion about the UK government’s anti-extremism strategy, Corbett-Dillon said: “I hate this idea that England is just a no man’s land. No, there is an indigenous population that have lived on that island for thousands of years.
“If this was happening in any other place around the world, everyone would be defending and saying: ‘Wow, there’s a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to that land.’”
Later on, responding to a former Liberal Democrat councillor who said he was proud to come from Leicester, Corbett-Dillon said “once again, another country is being turned into a no longer white nation”.
The genetic record shows that the majority of the “indigenous” population has remained quite stable since at least the 5th century BCE. There was a small but significant signal from the Anglo-Saxon invasion, a barely-detectable one from the Danes in a small number of places on the Northeast coast, and essentially nothing significant from the Normans, the Huguenots, or anyone else until the advent of 20th century immigration from the Empire.
And just as an indication of how stable populations (as opposed to languages and cultures) can be: there’s still a very clear genetic differentiation between those on the west of the Tamar and those on the east. And as a jam-first person, that’s as it should be. Wouldn’t want my daughter marryin’ one of that cream-first lot.
Also, sarcasm aside: racists like this blubbery pillock are a cancer on society.
Would be nice of you to link sources. This is not a criticism, as I too am a jam-first person.
Sorry, it’s a metric shit-tonne of papers and I’m too lazy and otherwise committed to post them here. There are YouTube vids that summarise some of the findings, but (as always with vids) you need to be careful to separate the science from the bullshit. I’ll see if I can find a few good entry-point papers, but I make no promises.
Jam-first solidarity. Proper job!
This is one entry point. Here’s a suprisingly good summary, considering it’s from Sky: https://news.sky.com/story/where-do-we-come-from-britains-dna-map-10367199
The more detailed summary of the actual reseach done at Oxford: https://peopleofthebritishisles.web.ox.ac.uk/population-genetics
And here’s the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14230
The paper also includes some excellent citations.
Nice, thanks!