UK 2021 Census data is out - fun fact time!

UK 2021 census data is out.

From here:

National identity, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/bulletins/nationalidentityenglandandwales/census2021#main-points

and here:

Ethnicity - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity

The English identify as British - Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish, not so much.

54.8% - 32.7 million) identified as "British" - a rise of 35.8 percentage points from 19.1% (10.7 million) in 2011. Those identifying as "English" only fell by 42.8 percentage points, from 57.7% (32.4 million) in 2011 to 14.9% (8.9 million) in 2021.

So much for a well-designed census question. Every resident in the UK is resident in the United Kingdom - Are those on Northern Ireland, which is not part of the definition of “Great Britain”, “British”?, of course they are. A bit like asking “are you human"?”.

Note there was no question “are you here illegally”, for obvious reasons. Probably 3-5% (as many as 3 million) of people living in the UK are illegal economic migrants. No matter, the Census is all about allocating spending and the tax burden - more than all discretionary spending is funded by borrowing. Borrowing, of course, means taking someone else’s money and never paying it back (i.e. stealing).

11.7% of the population in England and Wales (7.0 million) answered "Other" for national identity, up from 8.8% (5.0 million) in 2011. 12% identified as “Other” in England compared to 5.4% in Wales.

81.7% (48.7 million) of residents in England and Wales identified as "White", down from 86.0% (48.2 million) in the 2011 Census.

9.3% identified as Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh (5.5 million) of the overall population, up from 7.5% (4.2 million people) in 2011.

287 ethnic groups were identified in the Census. (I wonder if that includes thos identifying as “lizard people”?

In England only, the

"Asian, or Asian British" ethnic groups was 9.6% (5.4 million)

"Black, Black British, Caribbean or African" was 4.2% (2.4 million)

"Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups" was 3.0% (1.7 million)

"White" ethnic groups was 81.0% (45.8 million)

"Other ethnic groups" was 2.2% (1.2 million)

Maybe after this, TV ads in the UK will drop their “Black” representation from around a quarter to a half of ads to one in 25 and up the number of Asians from almost zero to one in 10. Chance would be a fine thing. There is an enormous living to be made out of “victimhood” as if any race, colour or creed has a monopoly on poverty, deprivation or misery - and vice versa for health, privilege and happiness.