Whitewavemark2
These people want to be our leaders!!
This is how you appeal to the low common denominator and, as it stands would mean my children would not be British and nor would many who are the children of children of service personel.
No doubt there would be "exceptions" but with such a blunt piece of legislation it could easily be manipulated.
Those whose far-right streak makes them excited about this should remember history.
One of the Nazi government's most significant legal changes was to redefine who counted as a citizen of Germany. The key change came with the Nuremberg Laws, passed in September 1935. These laws created two different legal statuses:
Reich citizens: People considered to have "German or related blood" who were deemed loyal to the Nazi state. Only they enjoyed full political rights, such as voting and holding public office.
State subjects: Everyone else remained subjects of the German state but without full citizenship rights.
The laws primarily targeted Jews, who were stripped of their German citizenship regardless of how long their families had lived in Germany. The Nazis also used racial ideology to discriminate against other groups, including many Romani people and people of African descent, though the legal treatment varied.
The Nazi government also introduced detailed racial classifications to determine who was considered Jewish based on ancestry rather than religion. This meant that someone could be classified as Jewish even if they did not practice Judaism.
These citizenship changes were a crucial step in the Nazis' broader program of persecution. By removing legal protections and political rights, the regime made it easier to exclude Jews from public life, confiscate property, and later carry out increasingly severe persecution that culminated in the Holocaust.
