// OG - // ... being born in a country does make it their country. //
andy doesnt agree
so what it is the old law - jus soli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Jus soli was part of the English common law, in contrast to jus sanguinis, which derives from the Roman law that influenced the civil-law systems of continental Europe.[4][5]
but statutes such as the British Nationality Act ( so many years - take you pick 1962) tended to change it
and so anomalously because our law givers are not as wise as they say
from being obviously British since I was born here, and my birth was not registered at any foreign embassy - jus soli geddit?
to jus gentium, not obviously British, deprivable by a court as I am eligible for another nationality - choice is an unenviable Pretoria or Bombay
sometimes it is not progress - it is different and not necessarily better