"the non WASP population of Britain makes up about 6% 1 in 17 ish.

Since "WASP" means "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" the number of non-WASPs has to be a good bit higher than that, since it includes everybody haling from any other part of Europe, including Ireland and Wales. Fine by me, the more the merrier.

"He got racial later, but after goading, so I can understand that attitude too, defending an untenable position. Very English." Not particularly English, I'd say. But it felt more more like the way racusts will often start out tentatively. to test out the ground before coming out openly. Goading doesn't so much make you say things you don't believe, it makes you drop the inhibitins about saying what you do believe. Like drink.

In response to Leo's point about new songs about immigration, here's one I wrote a couple of years ago - A Dreadful Disaster - and here is a link to a Real Audio sound file of it (pretty rough)