The Lords must vote against May's plan to strip Britons of their citizenship

theguardian.com

12 points·lucaspiller··7 comments

The UK vehemently opposed the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, in the end opting out of it, so UK ex-citizens can't even sue against their state disowning them.

Cool hack! We don't want to spy on, torture, or indefinitely detain our own citizens. So just stop them from being citizens, moral crisis averted.

She trains at my gym. I might spark up a conversation with her on this while we're on the mats stretching.

American here: how much power does the House of Lords have in the matter? I should have thought only a delaying one.

Pretty much. Once a bill has been approved by the House of Commons they can only reject a bill, but it can be reintroduced later once modified. In this case it serves as a measure for delaying quickly rushed through bills that weren't clearly understood, and bringing them into public light.

Although the Lords aren't elected, their power is more of an advisory role. They can't introduce or kill bills on their own. Also unlike politicians they don't have to worry about keeping their respective parties happy.

I don't get this "punishment more primitive than torture" nuance. It may be inconvenient (for people born somewhere outside U.K. to loose an inherited citizenship), but isn't a stretch to call that a "punishment"?

Any arguments along with the down-vote?

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