About one-third of people (36%) thought a person must be born in Britain to be truly British, up from one in five (19%) in 2023, a YouGov poll carried out this month for the thinktank found.
Unsurprisingly:
Supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK held the most extreme views of any party backers, with 71% saying that having British ancestry was a prerequisite for someone to be truly British, and 59% saying they believed the nation was an ethnic, not a civic, community.
by ewenmax
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This is no doubt what life will be like under Prime Minister Farage…
So, for the title text, they think that, for example, someone born in Manchester of 100% Asian descent is more British than someone born in Asia of 100% British descent? Weird.
As for the next bit, the ancestry, how many generations need to be born in Britain before they become British? If British ancestry is the pre-requisite, then they never can. Which, weirdly, if you go back enough generations, none of us are.
This is what happens when the far right are allowed to radicalize freely and openly promoted by the likes of Twitter/Elon/Social media
10 years from now the likes of Labour and big parties in the EU will be asking themselves why they did absolutely fuck all to stop the tech oligarchs
Even when people are born in the UK racists insist that they are not.
Phew. I’m mixed-race but luckily I was born here. What a relief.
Does anyone just not give a fuck about national identity?
During IndyRef people were all “I’m voting No because I feel British!” or “I’m voting Yes because I’m Scottish, not British!”
It just seems like such a pathetic thing to give that much of a fuck about. Do you have nothing else to be proud of other than what rock you were born on?
Not born here but spent more than half my entire life in the UK/scotland.
I’ll check Amazon for cheap rubber boats
Now that the Guardian has published something about a poll reflecting rising racism and exclusion, the far-right is going to love Guardian articles now
This is an old poll but shows attitudes haven’t really changed much in the past decade.
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/16405-what-makes-person-scottish
British is such a nonsense nationality anyways, I can’t understand why it’s become a focus for the English far right. You’d think they’d be more interested in the English identity primarily? But I guess they get confused about which is which.
>and 59% saying they believed the nation was an ethnic, not a civic, community.
>and 10% said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen.
Big yikes.
Wtf is this nonsense? Of course you have to be from Britain to be British. End of.
And before someone slides in with “actually…”, think about it – you move to China, nobody’s suddenly calling you Chinese. Some things aren’t up for debate, this is one of them.
Well that excludes that fuckwit Boris from being British. Can we deport him back to the States?
I dont think this is a change in attitiudes? Whats the alternative, anyone can call themselves British regardless where they were born or live?
The populace have always felt this way, the meekness is merely dissipating.
Opinions are a bit like keichers…..
National identity is a silly concept really, you can be born here but contribute less to society than someone who moves here from abroad. We should judge people by their actions, not their place of birth.
Some of the most quintessentially posh British people I’ve ever met were born in Africa or India.Â
Grim as fuck. Anyone who believes this can sing for it if as far as I’m concerned.
Ah yes go for culture wars and not the age old class war.
Divide and rule, or would you like sports to drive you all apart or religion, lads tbh I fucking loath yei all and the shite yer at, meh at this stage.
As things get harder it’s those in power not the other.
Do you think that this is quite lovely and welcoming considering vast swathes of the world were considered “British” at one point…
So that narrows down people’s ancestry to about 25% of the planet’s land areas…
Or is it possible that those 71% are ignorant dumb fucks that didn’t do the homework?
Lol this is gonna piss off Northern Irish Unionists and the lads in the Falklands
It’s probably a proxy for ethnicity but they don’t want to say it explicitly.
This feels like one of those things where people get overly offended on others behalf.
The overwhelming majority of migrants who live in the UK would not refer to themselves as British either.
As a proud Scot who spent the first 6 months of my life in England, this is absolutely stupid.
Does this count if I am a Canadian to Scottish/Irish grandparents through dad’s side and English (Worcester) through mom’s parents. I’m a Canadian dual-born with a UK citizenship….Lol
>Supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK held the most extreme views of any party backers
Right-wing Trumpish morons being ‘*Blut und Boden*’ type feck-wits shock!
Being ‘*Truly* British’ isn’t the gold watch they think it is, it’s more like winning a broken plastic spoon.
Spike Milligan could not get a U.K. passport as he was born in Poona India and his father was born in India. One of the down sides of being in the military in a huge empire
Well, I was born in Edinburgh and I don’t consider myself British. So I dunno what the point of this is.
My ex-partner was born and raised in Sweden. She studied in Portugal, Belgium, and Scotland.
She has lived here, runs a business, pays taxes, has raised two weans, and has made a home here for the past two decades.
She feels Scottish.
The arseholes who spout hate filled “go back to your own country” pish expect me to feel British.
They can fuck right off.
Of course British people are born in Britain..
Same as Japanese people are born in Japan.
German are born in Germany.
I was born in Asia to a Scottish father (and a white mother), what’s the thinking for these types of situations? Shall I just fuck off to a country I have no legal, ethnic, or cultural ties to, then? Birthplace is increasingly meaningless since, you know…boats and planes were invented.
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