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Concerning Colour ‘Concerns’

A Conservative Councillor in Cornwall resigned from the party after Josiah Mortimer revealed she was accused of “old-fashioned racism” for suggesting the UK cannot sustain the “volume of young black males” she claimed were “flooding” the country and jeopardising safety.

As followed-up by BBC News and other mainstream media outlets (some of which gave Byline Times credit), it all started when Pauline Giles backed a petition for “mass deportations” by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe (who now sits as an independent).

In a Facebook post, she wrote: “If you want mass deportation of illegals in dinghies sign this petition! We cannot sustain the volume of young black males flooding our country. It jeopardises the security of our country and is slowly bankrupting us!”

When asked why their skin colour mattered, Giles told this newspaper: “Because they are [black], aren’t they? I mean, they are coming over in boats, and I’ve seen the boats. I’m not making a big thing of this. I’m not prejudiced because I have friends of many colours. You see what’s coming across on the boats, and that’s what I am sort of registering.”