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rossriley • yesterday at 10:21 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

With his infamous "As I remember London" article [1] he directly correlated skin colour to nationality leading to the claim that native Brits had dropped from 60% to a third.

If you check now using current sources the British-born population is still around 59% the only thing that has changed is that fewer people identify themselves on the census as 'White British' which has a host of reasons around it. So he took a misleading statistic, interpreted it incorrectly and then built some kind of nostalgic story around it to support what was essentially an excuse to support far-right thugs protesting.

[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64


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throwawayfifo • today at 12:32 AM

>So he took a misleading statistic, interpreted it incorrectly and then built some kind of nostalgic story around it to support what was essentially an excuse to support far-right thugs protesting.

His exact words from the blog:

"In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third."

White Brits are the only native/indigenous Brits to London. It's not misleading, it's just a fact. He did not interpret this fact incorrectly.

spiralpolitik • today at 12:31 AM

The fact he used the term “native Britains” says everything about his politics.

WillPostForFood • yesterday at 11:13 PM

The first link in his article cites his source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London