Nobody is arguing that the English are an “Aryan master race.” Rees-Mogg is deliberately attacking a position almost nobody holds.
Belonging to a nation is a matter of ancestry and inheritance. It is impossible to "become English," regardless of whether you subscribe to "our values," because Englishness is an inherited ethnic identity.
Just because it comes from multiple sources - Britons, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans - does not mean that it does not exist, nor does it mean that anyone from anywhere can simply put it on like a costume.
That is not Nazism; it is a natural, moral, and healthy view that everyone, in all times and places - except White people in the 21st century - has held.
Why must we accept that this view is now beyond the pale? Why, meanwhile, is every other group encouraged to celebrate its identity and organise around its interests? Why can't we do the same?
These are the questions we are asking. If @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's response is to caricature us as Nazis and call our people mongrels, that's up to him. But he shouldn't be surprised if history remembers him as a coward and a traitor.
The game of identity politics is here to stay. The future belongs to those who take their own side and play to win.
To those of you who say it’s DNA that makes you English, I would say this: You don’t know what you’re talking about. Our DNA is already mixed up. Have a look at your own DNA.
Dare I say, you want to take the beam out of your own eye before you take the mote out of the eye of others.
We English are not, and nor should we be seen as, some eugenically pure island race. We are a people who have values and culture and strengths and liberties.
People who join that should be incorporated in it and encouraged in it, rather than made to feel foreign. But I would say to those who come here and wish to maintain their culture, that they are making a grave mistake. They have come here because of the strength of Englishness.
They should join in with it and not hold themselves out as something separate. The condition for coming is to become English, to be part of this great enterprise, not to remain a foreigner in these lands.
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If you have to write on X claiming to be English because you "Feel it"
or your family historically came from elsewhere
If you have a qualifier in your nationality
Plot twist
You are not English
Just as you cant be a woman because you "feel it" you cannot assume English ethnicity
Sep 24, 2026 · 7:02 PM UTC
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