If you say or imply that foreign people can’t be British, then we will fight you with everything we have because you are the enemy.
—Keir Starmer
Why come no one will vote for me?
—also Keir Starmer
Here is an epiphany for the conceptually-challenged Prime Minister. Foreign people can’t be British, for the obvious reason that if they were British, then they wouldn’t be foreign. A Pakistani who moves to Britain is still Pakistani. A monarch butterfly that migrates from Canada to Mexico does not cease to be a monarch butterfly on the basis of its southern residence.
A child of a Pakistani immigrant is still a Pakistani. So is a grandchild. Because what determines nationality is genetics, not geographic location. A child born in the Antarctic is not an Antarctican and a foreign child born in Britain is not British.
Neither paper nor governments dictate what a nation is. The nations existed before any of these governments or their papers existed. And they will last long after these governments and their papers are gone.