Tangerinemoss
Well-known member
The Home Office, answering criticism that regulations to strip people of Citizenship instantly, retrospectively and in secret were slipped into a Bill:
The Home Office said: “British citizenship is a privilege, not a right. Deprivation of citizenship on conducive grounds is rightly reserved for those who pose a threat to the UK or whose conduct involves very high harm. The nationality and borders bill will amend the law so citizenship can be deprived where it is not practicable to give notice, for example if there is no way of communicating with the person.”
Even the US has condemned this. If you are British, you are British. Many people would have sympathy with removing citizenship from those convicted of Terrorist Offences, who have been given British Citizenship, but this Bill will allow it to be removed for someone born and bred in the UK, with roots going back centuries.
This means you and me if the Government wants rid of us, and as it can be applied retrospectively, no right of appeal.
We seem to be teetering on the brink of a dictatorship
The Home Office said: “British citizenship is a privilege, not a right. Deprivation of citizenship on conducive grounds is rightly reserved for those who pose a threat to the UK or whose conduct involves very high harm. The nationality and borders bill will amend the law so citizenship can be deprived where it is not practicable to give notice, for example if there is no way of communicating with the person.”
Even the US has condemned this. If you are British, you are British. Many people would have sympathy with removing citizenship from those convicted of Terrorist Offences, who have been given British Citizenship, but this Bill will allow it to be removed for someone born and bred in the UK, with roots going back centuries.
This means you and me if the Government wants rid of us, and as it can be applied retrospectively, no right of appeal.
We seem to be teetering on the brink of a dictatorship