Post by johnofgwent on Feb 15, 2024 10:20:27 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68292604
The UK of course dumped this in 1971
Prior to Ted Heath’s immigration act Cliff Richard, Mahatma Ghandhi and I were as british as each other, the rules being that application for a British passport required only that your birth mother had at least one foot on british, british colonial or crown dependency land when her waters broke
And the passports all said the same too, that we were British Subjects, Citizens of The United Kingdom and Colonies. I still have mine issued in 1961 and it is a far darker black, and has much stiffer covers, than the thing i got about a year ago whose front cover accuses my father of stinking of elderberries, having been printed in FRANCE
However, France is pretty special among the former EEC countries and indeed the EU we left, in that birth on french soil conveys citizenship by right.
Which is a bit of an issue with pregnant illegals rocking up at some island colony and dropping a sprog able to enter mainland france as they wish
Macron is facing a kicking from both left and right !!
The UK of course dumped this in 1971
Prior to Ted Heath’s immigration act Cliff Richard, Mahatma Ghandhi and I were as british as each other, the rules being that application for a British passport required only that your birth mother had at least one foot on british, british colonial or crown dependency land when her waters broke
And the passports all said the same too, that we were British Subjects, Citizens of The United Kingdom and Colonies. I still have mine issued in 1961 and it is a far darker black, and has much stiffer covers, than the thing i got about a year ago whose front cover accuses my father of stinking of elderberries, having been printed in FRANCE
However, France is pretty special among the former EEC countries and indeed the EU we left, in that birth on french soil conveys citizenship by right.
Which is a bit of an issue with pregnant illegals rocking up at some island colony and dropping a sprog able to enter mainland france as they wish
Macron is facing a kicking from both left and right !!
