Britain reneging on part of the Good Friday agreement due to Brexit.
Aceris
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All they have to do is fill in a form renouncing their British citizenship. This is an effort by Republicans who hate the British government to make trouble over an obscure ideological point, not a genuine concern about international law and individual rights.
Isn’t what they’re saying they don’t want to be forced to renounce any citizenship, like had been the case over the last 20 years?
magnet
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I believe that people born in NI have had dual nationality ever since the GFA, and this won’t change after Brexit. They can keep both or sign a form to renounce British (or Irish) nationality.
The point of the article is more subtle. Emma DeSouza wants to apply for “settled status” after Brexit, sort of like a green card in the US, rather than keep two passports. This will require signing a form to renounce British citizenship.
Aceris
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No, the point is renouncing their British citizenship implies accepting they were ever British citizens, which they don’t want to do.
Aceris
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They are allowed to charge, as a GDPR request directed a political party on the basis of a leaflet sent out to people on the electoral roll can arguably be regarded as vexatious.
Is brexitparty.org actually a political party tho? Stupid Yankee here…
No members, no manifesto, just “supporters”
All candidates, employees etc are picked by Nigel Farage who has set himself up as chairman for life. It’s riddled with racists and fascists and their enablers, and funded and supported by the far right in the US and the Duginists in Russia.
and that’s proof just how many racists there are in Britain. Millions.
Farage is merely a more overtly racist and nationalist Trump. His last outing in the US was a tour supporting Roy Moore after the paedophilia and other issues made the news. His racism is a matter of record, and going back decades. To support him is an overt declaration you are a racist and ultra-nationalist, or enabler of racism (in the case of a handful of BAMEs in the BXP) and that the polls show strong support shows how close we are from fascist, ultra-right wing nationalist government.
KevinC
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How sad that many of our fathers and grandfathers fought and died to stop that horrible ideology, only for it to take root and spread like a noxious weed at home.
Brexit Party represents white glove/soft fascism and crypto-racism with influence from foreign money and thought via the Bannonites/Trump backers and the helpful nudge and wink from the Duginists and Putin like this article.
The UKIP has literally been taken over by 4chan/gamergate/alt right with similar funding and assistance and is overtly far right. They seem to be headlining because their candidates are edgy channers saying edgy channer stuff and its an absolute cesspit. Their online base is the worst of the alt right/pol/“classical liberal” crowd.
and the Yellow Jackets/Tommy Robinson/Britain First etc mob are the brownshirts and thugs for dial-a-fight at rallies and protests.
There’s a serious rise in the far right across all society and all classes.
Just an update on what a shitstain Farage is.
and a link for what i mentioned earlier. MILLIONS of British people support a man whose politics match those of Roy Moore. Perhaps our US posters are beginning to understand how dangerous the far right are in the UK right now.
Edit: Oh, and this headline is absolutely golden
Those of us with a functional brain in the U.S. have known how awful Farage is for a very long time.
heh fair enough, our not-so-regular-US-posters then
aeneas
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The Spectator Index @spectatorindex
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BREAKING: Theresa May will bring back Brexit deal for another vote in the House of Commons
Well sure, we all know the old saying: "If at first (or second, or third, or fourth) you don’t succeed, try, try again.
And the hardliners smell blood, so the vote will wind up even worse than all the others. May’s entire tenure as PM has been a passive-aggressive nightmare of sullenness and ressentiment.
