Tom Slater
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first heard Aug 2026
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I suppose is that if if you see your ex mentions and think where the hell are these people come from or where the hell are these arguments come from, it's not representative w of the British public, but it's clearly a growing tendency.
You should take these matters seriously and want to focus on how we remedy them.
But at the moment there's a kind of doubling down into
As I say, a denialism of the fact of English ethnicity on the one hand, or a
crude, um, simplistic and quite authoritarian measures to combat it on the more ethnonationalist, hardcore ethnonationalist side.
So yeah, surely without sounding too centrist about it, we've got to plot a course between those two particular options.
Yeah.
You know something that whilst whilst we are sort of correcting people on the other side of this argument, it's also you don't have to become some sort of bleeding heart liberal to recognise those contributions, to recognise the sense of cultural buying and also to recognise that
When we're having this discussion about the demographics of a country and what that might mean for its social cohesion, whatever going forward, that is not necessarily to make a entirely exclusionary or at all exclusionary argument.
Because of course ethnicity and culture are connected for reasons that are pretty obvious, but it's not mutually exclusive.
I mean, one example that I've seen many people on the more sort of ethno nationalist side get tripped up by is the question of who is more English, Bob Marley or King Charles.
Because if
If you're going by sheer ancestry, it would have to be Bob Marley, because one of his parents was of entirely British ancestry, whereas Charles, primarily German, bit of Danish in there and Scottish and what have you.
So it's one of those things where clearly this is something that people should and should be encouraged to buy into.
And the more kind of hard line we get, that that you remove any incentive towards integration at all.
You know, which is something that surely um no one should want to support.
Um but at the same time these are these are big problems which have been forced upon us and need to be dealt with precisely to to rescue the kind of cohesive society that everyone at least uh claims to want to have.
exactly.
I I also think before we go on we should apologise to the Welsh viewers for France's horrific
Pronunciation applied Cymru, which um would no less raise tackles in that part of the country.
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