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Old 5th Aug 2013, 14:48
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Tankertrashnav
 
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I presume you are all subjects whereas some of us prefer to be citizens.

As I have pointed out ad nauseam on various similar threads, we are (almost) all citizens now. We ceased to be subjects in 1983.

On 1 January 1983, upon the coming into force of the British Nationality Act 1981, every Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies became either a British Citizen, British Dependent Territories Citizen or British Overseas Citizen.
Use of the term British subject was discontinued for all persons who fell into these categories, or who had a national citizenship of any other part of the Commonwealth. The category of British subjects now includes only those people formerly known as British subjects without citizenship and people born in Ireland before 1949.
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