White British is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census. As a result of the 2011 census the estimated White British population was 51,745,135 (81.9% of the UK total population) (NB. This total remains an estimated figure as it is incorporates 2001 census data for Scotland, as the ethnicity data for Scotland for 2011 is still awaiting publication).
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“Your wits can’t thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You’ve no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”
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