They're doing to English ethnicity what they did to womanhood. Pretending that unless you have a PHD in DNA you can't have an opinion. That because nation states are mixtures of ethnic groups that intermarried thousands of years ago, you cannot make any claims to your land and must accept infinity immigration from hostile, alien clans, forever. "What's an Englishman" is the new "What's a woman" and the fact that the Tories are pushing this rhetoric tells you all you need to know about them. While it's not as black and white as sex, nearly all of us know where our grandparents came from. If they were living in England before 1945 you can be 99% sure they're British or from a nearly identical ad-mixture of culturally similar tribes. Don't even debate with them. It's a tactic designed to deny you your rights. That which cannot be defined in law cannot be defended in law. It's not acceptable for people who have 0 English ancestors to claim to be English. This is genocidal, coloniser talk. The only people who make such claims are engaging in bad faith. This rhetorical slight of hand is intended to create two class of English men: cis English and trans English. Why not ask women how consenting to become a sub-sect of their own sex worked out for them? You don't need to let them box you into their ethno-Nationalist box. It doesn't make you a Nazi because you think that the English exist. It does not follow that anybody who isn't English should be stripped of their rights and deported. That the English must remain racially pure and that people with mixed heritage are mongrels or racially inferior outcasts. Does this feel familiar? Like TRAs who pretend women aksing men to stop wanking in the ladies are committing a literal trans genocide. But to pretend that culture exists free floating from ethnicity and that we're all blank slate automotons is patently ridiculous. Just look at the ongoing animosity shown to the English by our British compatriots. They seem to loath us even though we have shared this land for thousands of years. Romani gypsies immigrated out of India nearly 1000 years ago, have they integrated into any European nation? What I fear more than anything is that we have created the social conditions for a hundred year civil war in Europe. This is an unprecedented social experiment and we have no idea what the outcome will be But can we have any kind of public debate about this? Can the people who already live here say - stop, we don't want this? Our leaders do not recognise any tangible differences between us and them. Now they are even trying to gaslight us that actually, the English don't exist and only a Nazi would think they do. I had a premonition of this during the debate about the difference between British and English and the notion that one was a civic category tied to citizenship and the other an ethnicity. It reminded me of debates around 2017 where women were told to cede the word woman to men. Because woman was a "social" category and female the biological category we should use female and let men have the word woman. But what happened when women budged up and gave men the word woman? The pushed forward and demanded they be referred to as biological females. We gave them British and accepted that anybody who came to these lands and was granted citizenship by the state could become a member of the English, or Scottish or Welsh tribe. That you can come from anywhere in the world and be British. But a few months later they come for English using the exact same logic as TRAs who say "if we can be women why can't we be female?" If you give them an inch they will take a mile. And then Luton, Birmingham and Bradford. Right now it feels like for every Frank Bruno there are ten more Jihadi al-Shamies. There is a kind of body horror for the English when the state insists those who want to annihilate everything about us are actually us. If you're a terf you should have felt this all before.