Kemp presents genetic evidence proving that the vast majority of British people have ancestors going back several thousands of years years when haplogroups R1b, I and R1a spread northwards. British people with the R1b1 DNA haplotypes have on average a 74 percent homogeneity, with the remainder coming from countries just across the sea.
Historical records offer proof as well:
The Romans invaded in AD 43 with an army of 4045,000 men but only 16,000 legionaries were stationed here afterwards.
Estimates for the population at that time are around 1.5 million; therefore, the effect of this invasion was one to two percent (
Eagles Over Britannia: The Roman Army in Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere).
''In the sixth century the Anglo-Saxon element in the population of Britain amounted to no more than fifty to a hundred thousand (
Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology AD 367634 by Leslie Alcock).
Therefore, the Anglo-Saxon contribution would be somewhere between three and six percent.
DNA evidence shows that the R1a Haplogroup for Anglo-Saxons in England is 4.5 percent, a remarkable correlation (Kemp, ibid).
Between 7891104 AD, the Vikings were known for their ferocious attacks on villages but only small numbers actually settled. War bands were tiny: from seven to thirty-five a band and above three dozen an army (
Anglo-Saxon England by Lloyd and Jennifer Laing).
After the Norman Conquest, William, Duke of Normandy, dismissed his mercenaries and nearly all returned to France.
''The probability is that the Continental settlement did not involve more than 10,000 people and perhaps as few as 5,000 (
Offshore Islanders: From Roman Occupation to European Entry by Paul Johnson). England simply acquired a new ruling class, writes Johnson.
The Flemish and Walloons came from what is now Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and parts of northern France and Germany. About 16,000 were recorded in 1440, which was less than one percent.
The population at the time was estimated between two and 2.5 million, and had diminished as a result of the Black Death (
Roots of the Future: An Education Pack for Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Britain by Peter White).
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there was a small trickle of people from all over Europe. In England and Wales, the 1871 census recorded 32,823 Germans, an Italian population of 5,063, again not significant amounts compared to the population of 20 million.
Between 1600 and 1800, people didnt welcome foreigners with open arms and intermarriage of any sort was infrequent. Even when William of Orange came to England to unseat the unpopular James II, he was accompanied only by approximately 11,000 foot and 4,000 horse soldiers. The effect of his invasion was once again small.
The marriages between kings and queens of Europe and their relative squabbles did not have much of a bearing on the poor, often starving, ordinary people who mostly stayed where they were for thousands of years.
Cheddar Gorge Man
Possibly one of the best examples is Cheddar Gorge Man who is an example of how people have stayed where they were for thousands of years.
In 1996, his DNA was profiled and a sample from 20 residents of a nearby village was taken. It produced two exact matches. The close match was a history teacher named Adrian Targett.
What this means is incredible these people are direct descendants of Cheddar Man and still live in the same area, thousands of years later.
The historical and genetic evidence support the fact that there is indeed a native people of Britain who have a right to this land.
We have as much right as the American Indians, Aborigines or Maoris.
