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In his appearance on the BBC’s Question Time on October 22, 2009, Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party (BNP) since 1999, commented:
The indigenous British … skin colour is irrelevant … no one [would] dare go to New Zealand and say to a Maori, what do you mean indigenous? He wouldn’t go to North America and say to an American Red Indian what do you mean indigenous, we’re all the same. The indigenous people of this island are the English, the Scots the Irish and the Welsh … it’s the people who have been here overwhelmingly for the last 17,000 years. We are the aborigines here. I’m sorry if you laugh.2
See comments made below the line to the following article: James Mackay and David Stirrup. “There Is No Such Thing as an ‘Indigenous’ Briton.” The Guardian. December 20, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/20/indigenous-britons-far-right. Accessed September 1, 2012.
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Kirwan, P., Stirrup, D. (2013). “I’m indiginous, I’m indiginous, I’m indiginous”: Indigenous rights, British Nationalism, and the European Far Right. In: Mackay, J., Stirrup, D. (eds) Tribal Fantasies. Studies in European Culture and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318817_4
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