Friday 22 February 2019

First They Came For Shamima Begum

It will never stand up in court, and it is not intended to. This is nothing more than internal Conservative Party electioneering by Sajid Javid. But even so, welcome to Shamima's Law.

If you would merely qualify for another nationality, whether or not you held it or wanted it, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen.

Saint Helena has never become independent and it never will, so I am all right this side of Scottish independence. But beyond the fair South Atlantic, most of Britain's former colonies in the Caribbean are independent now. And 50 per cent of people in Britain with an Afro-Caribbean parent also have a white parent. 

If you are in that position, even if your other ancestors have been Anglo-Saxon for as long as there have been any Anglo-Saxons, or even if Julius Caesar heard then speaking the language that is now Welsh, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen.

If you are one of the huge proportion of the population of Great Britain with an ancestral connection to Ireland, or if you are almost any of the current inhabitants of Northern Ireland including all 10 DUP MPs, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen.

And if you would qualify under Israel's Law of Return, which is considerably looser than the Rabbinical definition of who is Jewish, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen. How about that for anti-Semitism?

3 comments:

  1. The departing Labour MPs have exactly the same views on reversing Brexit as the majority of current Labour MPs and members. Who are forcing their leader to change tack on the issue or risk losing half his party. Whereas May could never change course on Brexit-because the remaining Tory MPs (freed of the Soubry wing), members and voters are fiercely pro-Brexit.

    This political realignment will finish with a straightforwardly pro-Brexit rightwing party and an anti-Brexit leftwing party.

    It was always going to happen.

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    1. Whenever anyone says "realignment" in relation to British politics, then switch off. All that they mean is that they want one. So what? There is not going to be one. And 2017 proved that Brexit had nothing to do with how anyone voted at a General Election.

      "The remaining Tory MPs (freed of the Soubry wing), members and voters are fiercely pro-Brexit"? I have never read anything so hilarious in my life.

      On topic, please.

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    2. Sorry, off topic, but Michael Fabricant expresses the mainstream Tory mood of affronted indignation at the suggestion that they are right-wing. They'll have to be left of this to avoid proving the splitters right. This is starting to look like deliberate triangulation.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/02/20/liberal-tory-member-erg-dare-splitters-call-extremist/

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