Reform's Arron Banks questions whether a black person can be Welsh

Tell us you’re a racist without saying you're a racist!

This is who Reform are. And if you’re going to vote for them then you’ve decided that racism isn’t a redline for you.

Same bloke that bankrolled Farage? Figures.

So far, so predictable. I'd be more interested in seeing his Tax Returns.

“He did however bankroll the Leave EU pro-Brexit campaign group in the run-up to the 2016 referendum“ Very true. And in the run up to said referendum he was in and out of the Russian embassy like a fart in a colander. I wonder whether Nathan Gill should have company.

I question whether Banks can be a human being

I went to a fairly large comprehensive school where a few of my peers were black. Never considered them any less Welsh than I am. How 'patriotic' is giving a Lesotho government minister thousands of pounds in blood stained money so he could prospect for diamonds?

Bashir is certainly Welsh if he says he is. Banks has shot himself in the foot here though by asking the question. He belongs to an eradicationist organisation which believes nobody is Welsh but will wear the nationality dictated by them. He may have huge sums of money. I hope that gives him comfort while he has to contemplate being an eternal and irretrieveable failure of a lifeform.

Of course, Aaron Banks owns a large mansion overlooking a game reserve near Pretoria in South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DRSEQ5JBic Suggest he check his own back door before dissing the black people of Wales. Especially if the speak a language he doesn't understand.

If he believes this he must believe the same about a Black English person, which I assume was his real dog whistle message that he knows he couldn't say while Nigel is trying to pretend Reform isn't a racist party.

Try telling Billy Boston or Glenn Webbe they are not Welsh.

Bashir has been speaking out for Butetown for years. I’d point out to Arron Banks that he represents the SOMALILAND community in Cardiff, who have been well integrated in Wales for over 100 years. Banks clearly makes the same error as so many people do of confusing Somalia (the former Italian colony where warfare and internecine atrocities abound), with Somaliland, the former British protectorate on the Horn of Africa, which is an independent, well-organised and flourishing democracy - but one which the British government STILL does not recognise!! And yes, Bashir is Somali Welsh! Da iawn Bashir!

I'm always nervous posting things like this because I understand how modern reductionist politics twists things to often say the opposite of what you're actually saying. Around a decade ago, a UK-wide DNA survey showed that the DNA found in bodies from the last Ice Age, around 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, still exists today along both banks of the Menai. The coast of what is now Gogledd Cymru was where the indigenous people of these survived, it's amazing how useful an inhospitable mountain range can be. That's around 10,000 years before even the Celts are known to have started arriving here in these ancient lands, let alone far more recent settlements on the other side of our border. Of course, we have discovered settlements from far earlier, but so far, we don't really have any DNA evidence, and there could have been people arriving and leaving before then without any record. What that DNA has taught us, though, is that up until around 6,000 to 7,000 years ago, the people who lived on these islands were actually dark-skinned rather than the pasty-faced complexion that has become normal for us here due to our lovely weather. So, as far as our records go back in terms of something as trite as skin colour in these ancient lands, Arron Banks should not be a happy man-child. In reality, though, once you start drawing what I refer to as arbitrary immigration lines in the sand, if you go back far enough, we are all immigrants from what is now called Western Africa. Perhaps the true irony of this for me is in the ex-slave states in the USA, simply because of the locations of those states, people having kids there will find that their own descendants will be evolving very, very slowly, step by step, away from what is required of a recommended skin colour in those particular states. Especially as many of those states don't believe in global warming, so they're choosing to actively accelerate the evolutionary process somewhat. I would hope that by the time any real difference could be noticed, we've all just grown out of this stupidity as a species.

So who exactly IS Arron Banks? I think we deserve to be told. He’s wealthy - but look for youself at his back-story - expelled from two schools ( one for stealing lead from the roof - read for yoursef! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arron_Banksm

If it were a sick joke ridiculing Black people, Aaron Banks, it was deeply inappropriate. What will make me laugh, however, is seeing the faces of those clowns in Reform UK when Plaid Cymru wipes the smirks off come May 7th. #Ymlaen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊#VotePlaidCymruMay7th 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊ #PutWalesFirstNotNigelFarage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #ReformUK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #NigelFarage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #DanThomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #WelshNot ⛔

Aaron Banks cannot be Welsh and doesn't get a vote