![]() Her fear, rather, is that “white Britons” are “becoming a minority in the UK”. It’s entitled “Would you want London to be overrun with Americans like me?” But it’s not Americans like her that worries Shriver. The latest comes in an essay by the novelist Lionel Shriver in the Spectator. Increasingly, though, mainstream conservatives – academics, politicians, writers – are taking up the call. Until recently, issues of “white identity” and of “white decline” were confined to the far-right fringes, where notions such as that of the “great replacement”, the belief that white people are being driven out of their “homelands”, flourished. To say so, Lionel Shriver insists, is not racistĪ century on, such fears of “white decline” have returned in certain circles. For Britain to remain Britain, it has to remain predominantly white. “Whereas, until about 20 years ago, our immigrants were drawn from the Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic populations of north-western Europe,” Ripley wrote, “they have swarmed over here in rapidly growing proportions since that time from Mediterranean, Slavic, and Oriental sources.” He was worried that Anglo-Saxons were showing a “low and declining birthrate” while “the immigrant horde… has continued to reproduce upon our soil with well-sustained energy”. ![]()
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