Cultured Views

Answer is simple – when his father is British, his mother is Australian and he was born in the United Kingdom.  Confused? you darn well should be because I certainly am.

I saw an article today which has enraged me by reporting that 160,000 foreigners were granted British citizenship in 2007; people who were not even born there nor have any British roots at all and yet they qualify for something which our British born son has been continually denied.

Now while I think it’s great that those people feel strongly enough about their adopted country that they take out citizenship I have strong issues with the British Govt who have a law which states a British man cannot pass his nationality onto his children. As I say, I am Australian, born in a Commonwealth country and yet am officially an alien/foreigner in the UK.  My partner has generations of British ancestry and has always lived there; but simply because we are not married our son cannot be considered ‘British’. He cannot take his father’s nationality.

It smacks of discrimination for sure.

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