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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by jen20 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:16AM (#26491536)
I’m not arguing for the continued power grab of the home secretary here (who is abhorrent), but the UK does not have birthright citizenship like the US does, so the same set of rules do not necessarily apply.

Anyone born in New York is American, not everyone born in London is British.

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by pjc50 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:33PM (#26494368)
Yes, the UK ended birthright citizenship in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1981

The empire caused all sorts of citizenships to appear; citizens of the Empire were "British" right up until the point where they actually started moving to Britain, causing that right to be taken away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Ugand...

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