Comments by "Safir Ahmed" (@safirahmed) on "British citizenship of six million people could be threatened by Home Office plans" video.

Citizenship is a right not a privilege.
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@tomastan4944 The laws being passed will mean anyone who criticises, embarrasses, dissents against politicians and those in power, or results in loss of political credibility for politicians or organisation or foreign countries or criticises any country, foreign government, billionaire or multinational corporation could lose their citizenship. It would mean British citizens who criticise or campaign against foreign countries oppressive regimes with poor human rights records who are descendants of those countries by parents or grandparents could be stripped of their British citizenship and deported to an uncertain fate to the country with the oppressive regime. People could lose their citizenship because their public opposition resulted in loss of trade deals, political embarrassment by visiting dignitaries or cancelled business deals and contracts by the UK. The new nationality laws will mean people will lose their human rights to lawful protest under threat of deportation and loss of citizenship.
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@tomastan4944 Your comments about me are malicious. I am a law abiding citizen who has been given citizenship which I do understand. Citizenship has rights and responsibilities. The State also has rights, responsibilities and accountability. Removing the rights of citizens to legitimate peaceful lawful protest and enabling easier removal of citizenship and deportation of former British citizens will enable politicians and political policy to become unaccountable.
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@tomastan4944 You are mistaken, the laws will remove citizenship and deport those who criticise foreign governments or government policy.
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@tomastan4944 Millions of people who have suffered from Conservative Government policies since 1979 would strongly disagree with your claim the State does not do harm. Indeed the history of Conservative Government policies has resulted in Brexit and tremendous economic harm in addition to wholesale privatisation of publicly owned assets. It's why the Tory policies on Brexit, US UK Brexit trade deals, nationality and citizenship, abolition of EU human rights, the policies on the right to protest and electoral reform will mean the UK becomes an unaccountable authoritarian regime without human rights.
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@tomastan4944 Citizenship is a right for those who have citizenship, are granted citizenship or are entitled to citizenship. When citizenship becomes a privilege it means those in power can remove citizenship to stop criticism, dissent and embarrassment.
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@tomastan4944 You don't know me, your comments are completely untrue and without merit and indeed are malicious. When you understand human rights you will understand my comments.
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@tomastan4944 To clarify my previous comment: The majority of people have never voted for the Conservative Government as most elected Governments in the UK since 1979 have only received a minority of overall votes in some cases less than substantial turnout of voters. Campaigning for electoral reform and true democratic accountability is never a waste of time as it benefits everyone and makes society a better place.
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@tomastan4944 Citizenship is the right to have rights. In any case you could look at Nationality and Borders Bill Clause 9 and determine relationship between a foreign country and the UK and define the meaning of public interest and the term conducive to the public good. Indeed the term vital interest could easily include trade deals and political reputation of politicians.
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@tomastan4944 Tories that is the Conservatives do not support proportional representation, did not support giving British citizens of voting age living outside the UK for 15 or more years votes in UK elections, do not support lowering voting age to 16 years, don't support automatic voter registration. Tories also want to extend the deeply unfair and unaccountable First Past The Post electoral system, impose Voter Photo ID denying people the ability to vote, and change electoral boundaries to favour Conservative candidates. The billionaire owned mainstream media also support Conservatives. Therefore it becomes almost impossible to vote out Conservative Governments. Proportional representation using the D'Hondt electoral system (regional list system) would deliver a Government for the people, by the people with the people. Proportional representation using the D'Hondt (regional list) system would mean the current Government would lose 77 Conservative MPs and have a working majority of 3 seats. Electoral Reform Society has more information. Change can only occur with truly democratic electoral systems. The existing First Past The Post electoral system is not democratic and not accountable. It's why the Nationality and Citizenship Bill must be opposed and the right to lawful peaceful protest supported
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@tomastan4944 It's you who cannot accept facts and it's you who have the facts wrong. Margaret Thatcher's Government was elected in 1979 as the largest party but the majority of votes cast were against the Conservatives as occurred in many following elections. I will not reply to you any further on this thread.
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