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Not only is this vile man denying the English their ethnicity, he seeks to strip them of their last - & most intrinsic - identity Denying a group their ethnic heritage contributes to "cultural genocide" or "ethnocide" according to the 1944 definition His mother is White British (presumably English) so he can rightly lay claim to being half English - despite previously claiming to be Nigerian and relishing in his African identity My mother is Polish, but I would NEVER DREAM of attempting to strip Poles of their cherished identity. Such an idea is grotesque and abominable. My father is Sikh but secular and entirely Westernized (i.e. no turban or outward trappings of his ancestral religion) - and as I was raised Catholic in a culturally British / Western household speaking only English, I have minimal / negligible connection to Sikhism. Consequently, irrespective of my father's heritage, I would be rightly ridiculed and scorned if I deigned to deny this group their heritage If one is born and raised in England, a person may be culturally English -- but that is wholly distinct and separate from being ethnically English. The two identities have happily co-existed for generations - with the culturally English understanding their status and preferring to identity as civically / legally "British" rather than English. This was done partly out of respect for the ethnically English. Polling shows that ALMOST ALL ethnic minorities in England still understand that "English" is a fundamentally ethnic identity. It is only nihilistic parts of the White British community - and activists like this odious MP - who seek to engage in ethnic erasure. What is behind this sinister desire to erase English ethnicity, by far the most historically significant and consequential identity? If anyone still believes the myth that the Liberal Democrats are a "centrist" party of "moderates" - falling somewhere between the Tories and Labour, this reprehensible policy by one of their MPs must surely blast it to smithereens. Economically they may be more centrist than Labour - but culturally they are every bit as dangerous.