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The broadcasting regulator Ofcom is under pressure to investigate after the right-wing broadcaster GB News promoted a segment in which a former adviser to Boris Johnson and other senior Conservatives claimed that ethnic minorities are threatening a “white genocide” in the UK.
Thomas Corbett-Dillon, real name Craig Dillon, lives in the US according to his IMDB profile and regularly appears on Fox News.
He told GB News’ The Late Show in the early hours of Monday morning: “I’d like to know where you’re planning on going when they really turn on us. Because it has happened before and it will happen again,” he added.
On Elon Musk’s platform X, he credited ethnonationalist Steve Laws (affiliated with UK neo-Nazi parties Patriotic Alternative and Homeland, as well as Restore Britain) for “paving the way” and making his comments possible on national TV. Laws has said he wants “total remigration” – forced expulsion – of all non-white people in the UK.
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Richard Wilson, director of campaign group Stop Funding Hate, told Byline Times: “GB News has become a home for the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory – a narrative that has inspired real-world violence. Ofcom’s repeated failure to act over this channel’s toxic output is more than just a regulatory failure – it’s a policy choice.”
“When a licensed broadcaster can air suggestions that ethnic minorities will ‘turn’ on white Brits, Ofcom’s fitness for purpose as a regulator must be seriously questioned.”
“This is white nationalist ideology on a licensed TV channel. Ofcom’s silence is a green light.”
Ofcom said that as of Wednesday 10:30am, they had received 24 complaints about this programme which they were assessing. An Ofcom spokesperson said: “We are assessing the complaints against our rules, but are yet to decide whether or not to investigate.”
To the shock of anti-racist commentators, GB News promoted one of Dillon’s clips on its social media.
Sunder Katwala, director of the British Future think tank, said on Bluesky: “GB News is both broadcasting and clipping ‘there is a genocide happening in this island’ due to immigration and demographic change, by Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former digital campaign adviser to Johnson’s Conservatives.”
Thomas Corbett-Dillon said ‘you want to hear some extremist views, you won’t get them on GB News‘ – before saying there is a ‘genocide’ happening in the UK.
Corbett-Dillon also said he ‘couldn’t be saying this today without you setting the groundwork and taking the attacks for years, Steve’ – to Steve Laws. As Katwala noted, Laws advocates ‘total remigration’ of all migrants and ethnic minorities.
In one interview, Steve Laws says to presenter Andrew Gold, who is Jewish: “I don’t believe you’re European… I think you’re Jewish…”
Gold replies: “But I’m not going to Israel”
Laws says: “Yeah. If I had power, mate, you would be.”
Later Gold asks: “What if I don’t want to go to Israel?”
Laws: “…That’s not really your choice, unfortunately. If I’m in…a position of power where I can control the immigration situation in the country, it’s not a choice for you.”
Steve Laws said on X: “We now have immigration being referred to as a genocide on mainstream TV. A positive step forward.”
Sunder Katwala added: “This is more on GB News shifting of the Overton Window – on calling immigration ‘genocide’ against white people. They haven’t just shifted it. They’ve blasted it over towards the distant horizon.”
Dillon’s company, WD International Holdings Ltd, is long overdue on its accounts on Companies House and he has not submitted identification, according to the official register.
GB News was contacted for comment.
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Stop Funding Hate’s Ofcom complaint
“We wish to complain about a segment (2:05AM and 2:15AM) in which guest Thomas Corbett-Dillon promoted the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory, with presenter Ben Leo providing wholly inadequate challenge.
“Corbett-Dillon claimed white Brits face demographic “genocide”; that “in ten, twenty years there will be no white nations left”; and warned – unchallenged – that ethnic minorities will “turn on” white people: “it has happened before and it’ll happen again.”
“The ICC defines genocide as “committed with intent”, meaning Corbett-Dillon was implying non-white people are deliberately displacing white Britons. His claim about ethnic minorities eventually ‘turning’ on white people considerably added to this harmful implication.
“Leo’s only interjection was: “genocide, is that a bit of a harsh word? I mean white Brits are still the majority in the UK” — immediately abandoned when he added: “there was a report saying white Brits would be a minority in the next 50 years or so”, lending credibility to Corbett-Dillon’s framing.
“We believe this breaches the Broadcasting Code: – Rule 3.1: Framing ethnic minorities as an existential threat who will “turn on” white people is likely to stir up racial hatred.
“Rule 2.3: A token challenge immediately undermined by a supportive statement does not constitute adequate editorial scrutiny to a highly offensive statement about ethnic minorities.
“Rule 3.2: Non-white residents are portrayed as colonisers engaged in deliberate displacement.”
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