Alfred Wyvern took the British nationality Act, initiated in 1708, reinforced in 1948 and 1981, and threw it into the void. "We're English, not British!" he declared. Out damned GOO, out!
Fantastic breakdown of how the 1948 Act fundamentlaly gutted the Act of Settlement protections. The bit about repealing both nationality acts to restore birthright qualifications for office realy gets at something deeper than just immigration policy. Back in uni we studied similar constitutional shifts in other commonwealth nations and nobody ever framed it as vandalism like this. Framing Farage's trajectory through the Reform-Israel lens adds a layer most commentary misses entirely.
I've been notified of two comments by you, yet see only one here; the machinations of Substack and IT frequently confound me.
I had to look up 'Laïcité', 'the French principle of secularism, enshrined in the Constitution as a cornerstone of the Republic.'
Having spent 10 years in Istanbul where I have some reputation for painting Atatürk, I was attracted to his secular principles. Today, though not religious, I am not so sure. I did develop an acute awareness of national independence after learning about Türkiye's war of independence.
I still like his quotes:
Bağımsızlık Benim Karakterimdir : İndependence Forms My Character
Yurtta Barış Dünyada Barış : Peace At Home, Peace İn The World… if only.
Upon the establishment of the Police College, Istanbul, Türkiye 1934, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stated:
‘A policeman must be as disciplined as a soldier, as law abiding as a judge and as caring as a mother.'
Nice idea.
Again, if only, here and there.
It seems other states, the artificial construct Israel being a significant example, are 'allowed' to protect their nation state identity, but we the English are not. We get labelled racist. Today an imposter called Sadiq Khan is ruining my home town London. Mind you, a bastard called Boris was ruining it before the Marxist C40 co-chair Sordik Khant, as I refer to him. It's a GOO problem.
Fantastic breakdown of how the 1948 Act fundamentlaly gutted the Act of Settlement protections. The bit about repealing both nationality acts to restore birthright qualifications for office realy gets at something deeper than just immigration policy. Back in uni we studied similar constitutional shifts in other commonwealth nations and nobody ever framed it as vandalism like this. Framing Farage's trajectory through the Reform-Israel lens adds a layer most commentary misses entirely.
I've been notified of two comments by you, yet see only one here; the machinations of Substack and IT frequently confound me.
I had to look up 'Laïcité', 'the French principle of secularism, enshrined in the Constitution as a cornerstone of the Republic.'
Having spent 10 years in Istanbul where I have some reputation for painting Atatürk, I was attracted to his secular principles. Today, though not religious, I am not so sure. I did develop an acute awareness of national independence after learning about Türkiye's war of independence.
I still like his quotes:
Bağımsızlık Benim Karakterimdir : İndependence Forms My Character
Yurtta Barış Dünyada Barış : Peace At Home, Peace İn The World… if only.
Upon the establishment of the Police College, Istanbul, Türkiye 1934, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stated:
‘A policeman must be as disciplined as a soldier, as law abiding as a judge and as caring as a mother.'
Nice idea.
Again, if only, here and there.
It seems other states, the artificial construct Israel being a significant example, are 'allowed' to protect their nation state identity, but we the English are not. We get labelled racist. Today an imposter called Sadiq Khan is ruining my home town London. Mind you, a bastard called Boris was ruining it before the Marxist C40 co-chair Sordik Khant, as I refer to him. It's a GOO problem.