At first glance, Shamima Begum and I don’t have much in common. She fled Britain when she was a schoolgirl to join Islamic State. I came to the UK from Sri Lanka in 2005 and qualified here as a public and human rights lawyer. I became a British citizen in 2015.Naga Kandiah, a solicitor at MTC Solicitors is worried.
Like Begum, I too could be stripped of my British citizenship without warning under a proposed rule change quietly added to the nationality and borders bill, thanks to a provision known as clause 9.
Well, Naga, are you planning to flee the country and join a terrorist group? Because if you aren't, I'd say you've got nothing to worry about...
How does the government define what is in the public interest? Could that include displeasing the government of the day, even if no crime is committed and no law is broken?
Good grief, no! That'd make us like some sort of Third World banana republic, like...well, Sri Lanka, or something.
The Home Office has said that British citizenship is a privilege, not a right.
Which very, very few people disagree with. Unless they are paid - and no doubt paid well 0 to, of course.
Psychologically, the rug of our secure lives here is being pulled from under our feet. Those of us among the 5.6 million who are people of colour will sleep less easily in our beds if this clause becomes law.
The rest of us will sleep a lot sounder because of it, however.
At my local curry house, the Naga curries are particularly hot. Is this Naga a hot piece?
ReplyDeleteIN Rikki Tikki Tavi, one of the Jungle Book tales by Rudyard Kipling, Nag and Nagaina are poisonous snakes. Is this Naga(ina) a poisonous snake?
The former, we want to keep. The latter need to be exterminated.
My wife is a person of colour and has dual citizenship. She feels a lot safer because we have one less terrorist.
ReplyDeleteAlthough personally I would let all ISIS members back to the UK - and lock them up and throw away the key.
Or maybe put them on an uninhabitated island - I would of course drop food once a week for them.
It is interesting how many of our New British friends seem to be outrageously outraged by the idea that if you wage war against Britain you lose your citizenship. Kind of a red flag, like your fiancé explaining how they think that cheating shouldn't necessarily mean the end of a relationship.
ReplyDeleteOdd, she's worried about the possibility that she 'could' lose her citizenship if she behaves suitably egregiously, but doesn't seem at all bothered that the UK State has been locking the entire population in their homes on and off for the last 2 years, with no good reason. Perhaps she should direct her 'human rights' radar onto that sort of behaviour.......but of course she won't because she's the sort of c*nt who approves of that sort of abuse of human rights.
ReplyDelete"At my local curry house, the Naga curries are particularly hot. Is this Naga a hot piece?"
ReplyDeleteIt would appear to be a chap, and I can't say he does anything for me...
"My wife is a person of colour and has dual citizenship. She feels a lot safer because we have one less terrorist."
And I suspect that's a far more common response than this one!
"Kind of a red flag, like your fiancé explaining how they think that cheating shouldn't necessarily mean the end of a relationship."
Heh!
"...but doesn't seem at all bothered that the UK State has been locking the entire population in their homes on and off for the last 2 years, with no good reason."
Ah, but that's for 'the good of society', of course!