Connor Tomlinson
A new YouGov poll finds Reform voters disagree with the party's "British values" civic nationalist platitudes.
71% of Reform voters agree that having native ancestry is "a prerequisite for someone to be truly British".
59% agree Britain is "an ethnic, not a civic, community."
37% of Reform voters said "they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time."
Diversity is not a strength.
Being British is not a matter of having the proper paperwork or holding liberal values. Ethnicity is real, and it matters.
That fact does not make those without British ancestry bad people.
But a shared heritage and identity are the foundations for a nation-state. The more those demographic foundations are fractured by diversity, the less cohesive culture and society becomes.
The only way to restore that cohesion is by stopping and reversing unwanted demographic change.
Both Nigel Farage and Richard Tice have said that they are not concerned about white Brits becoming a minority in their own country.
But a majority of their supporters are. It's time they had the courage to reflect the concerns of the public.
