Josh Babarinde’s Census Bill: A Rare Dose of Common Sense on English Nationhood

Josh Babarinde, MP and OBE. Well, we don't have a British Empire anymore, so why is England locked in the vaults of Britain, and being hacked up?

Every now and then, amidst the endless Westminster smoke and mirrors, a politician tables a proposal built on plain logic and basic fairness. On 10 November 2026, Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde did just that by introducing the English Ethnic Identity (Census Particulars) Bill—dubbed the "St George’s Bill"—which passed its first reading unopposed and is due back in the Commons on St George's Day, 23 April 2027.
The bill exposes one of the glaring double standards baked into the UK's asymmetric devolution settlement. On the 2021 census, Scotland and Wales—two overwhelmingly White countries with their own devolved parliaments—offered explicit, inclusive national-ethnic categories such as "Scottish Asian" and "Black Welsh." Meanwhile, in England—by far the most ethnically diverse country in the United Kingdom—the census form confined "English" strictly to a single box under "White," forcing Black, Asian, and mixed-heritage people born and raised in England to tick "British" or write their identity into a miscellaneous box.
Why does that matter? Because keeping "English" locked up as a dusty, White-only ancestral tick-box suits the exact political myth we have exposed on this blog for years.
In Scotland and Wales, devolved administrations eagerly use inclusive civic labels to build distinct national identities and sideline Britishness. Yet when it comes to England—which is denied its own national parliament, sliced into artificial administrative "regions," and short-changed by Lord Barnett’s reviled funding formula—officialdom treats England not as a living, modern nation, but as a fusty old museum exhibit.
Even more absurd are the online protests from Scottish and Welsh nationalists insisting that UK national ethnicities should remain strictly White. Their motive is transparent: if England is allowed to recognise its Black English, Asian English, and White English citizens on equal footing, it exposes an uncomfortable truth—that there is a real, vibrant, living nation called England, and it is the most genuinely diverse country on these islands. 
Just as absurd are the protests from 'English' protesters, who claim English should be a fusty old ethnicity, stored in the vaults. England is an historic country and needs a nationality/ethnicity which reflects it in modernity. A country called England needs a nationality/ethnicity called English.
England has never been a frozen bloodline. From early medieval families mixing peacefully in places like Oakington in Cambridgeshire right through to the diverse communities of today, English history has always been an inclusive, evolving reality rather than an invented "Celtic" fairy tale.
Josh Babarinde’s bill won't abolish the Barnett Formula or fix the West Lothian Question overnight. But by demanding that every citizen of England has the right to claim English identity on equal terms with Scotland and Wales, it strikes a vital blow for English national recognition. Let’s hope cross-party pressure forces the Office for National Statistics to adopt it—and puts England firmly back on the official map.

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