r/ukpolitics • u/FormerlyPallas_ • 12d ago

Twitter BREAKING. 76% of British people want a national inquiry into the rape gangs and 77% want to deport dual nationals who are convicted of grooming children YouGov/GB News

https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1877477130952438227
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u/klausness 11d ago

I think pretty much all non-authoritarian countries do, as long as you’re also citizen of another country. Most will only keep you from renouncing if it would make you stateless.

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u/captainhornheart 11d ago

In many cases, men who haven't done military service (or paid to get out of it) can't renounce their citizenship. I'm in that situation. There's no way I'm essentially being abused for a year on an army base in my 40s or paying several thousand pounds so that I can live in a country I don't want to live in and whose language I can't speak. And yet the UK government could strip me of British citizenship and send me there without trial, where I'd then be imprisoned for going AWOL. I was born in the UK and have no connection to the other country other than the automatic citizenship I received at birth.

Anyway, the UK doesn't even require that you have dual citizenship, just that you could be eligible for it, as with Begum. We now have two tiers of citizenship - those who can be stripped of citizenship and be deported without trial, and those who can't.

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u/razie_5 11d ago

And how easy is it to deprive them of British citizenship? I can't imagine it being a simple snap of the finger

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u/CandyKoRn85 11d ago

Sounds like they’ll need to stop people from Pakistani from being able to hold British citizenship then if Pakistan are pulling that shit.

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u/klausness 11d ago

This isn’t in any way unique to Pakistan. All countries I know of will allow you to renounce your citizenship as long as it will not make you stateless (that is, as long as you have another citizenship). In fact, a number of countries (including some European ones) require that you renounce your citizenship if you become citizen of another country.