GB News is facing a backlash after a commentator on one of its shows suggested there is \u201ca genocide happening\u201d against white people in England and that immigrants could \u201cturn\u201d on the white population.<\/p>\n
Ofcom, the media regulator, has received a series of complaints about the comments by Thomas Corbett-Dillon.<\/p>\n
Corbett-Dillon, who worked on Penny Mordaunt\u2019s unsuccessful Conservative party leadership campaign and who also claims to have advised Boris Johnson, appeared on GB News\u2019s US-based Late Show Live<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n During a discussion about the UK government\u2019s anti-extremism strategy<\/a>, Corbett-Dillon said: \u201cI hate this idea that England is just a no man\u2019s land. No, there is an indigenous population that have lived on that island for thousands of years.<\/p>\n \u201cIf this was happening in any other place around the world, everyone would be defending and saying: \u2018Wow, there\u2019s a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to that land.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Later on, responding to a former Liberal Democrat councillor who said he was proud to come from Leicester, Corbett-Dillon said \u201conce again, another country is being turned into a no longer white nation\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there is a genocide against white people, where do they go,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no more land. So this argument: \u2018Oh, but isn\u2019t it so nice … it would be boring if we didn\u2019t have these people.\u2019 Because, what, you can get a curry down the street?<\/p>\n \u201cGuess what? In 20, 30 years there will be no white nations left. And I would love to know where you\u2019re planning on going when they really turn on us, because it has happened before and it will happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n Ofcom has received 24 complaints, but has not yet decided whether to investigate. Section two of the broadcasting code states there are \u201cgenerally accepted standards\u201d that need to be applied to content.<\/p>\n Approached for comment, Corbett-Dillon replied with a lengthy statement in which he said he stood by his comments. He compared his support for England to preserve its \u201chistoric English character\u201d with his backing for Israel\u2019s right to be a Jewish-majority state, or Japan to be a Japanese-majority society.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure the Guardian will attempt to sensationalise my comments, but I clearly said that if a small Pacific island were experiencing the same demographic change that the UK has, the media, and the UN, would call it a genocide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The regulator has recently been accused of abandoning the enforcement of impartiality rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n