If you live Overseas
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British law relating to the funding of political parts allows individuals living overseas who are not registered to vote in the UK to join and buy merchandise from us, but they are only allowed to donate up to a total of £200 in any calendar year.
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LIVE ABROAD? WANT TO REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL?
PLEASE DON’T!
Under British law, political parties are not permitted to receive bequests from individuals who are not and have not been registered to vote in the UK in the last five years. So if you live somewhere like Australia or the USA then however much you support the BNP please do NOT leave us anything in your will. If you do it will only go to the British Government.
We recommend that any sympathetic foreigner or non-registered ‘Brit’ who wants to leave a legacy to help advance the nationalist Cause in Britain does so instead by making a will in favour of a worthy independent non-party group such as the Christian Council of Britain, Civil Liberty or Solidarity.
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I would like to join the BNP. I mentioned elsewhere on bnp.org that the British Consul in NY says that I am ineligible for Citizenship. Please note, I do not need a British Passport for work or travel reasons.
Maternal line: My great grandfather was British, London born and educated I believe and worked for the FCO abroad. My great grandmother was Anglo Irish. Their daughter married my Anglo-German grandfather. My mother was British but changed her citizenship to Irish after some years with my Irish nationalist father, whose grandfather was a drummer in the British Army (Shhhhh!). My Irish nationalist father was entitled to dual English-Irish citizenship, and worked for a British Research Institute which seconded him to a private company who needed a scientist in a foreign op - where I was born.
I “returned” to England at the age of one and was educated there until the age of 10. As a precocious child, testing demonstrated that I had the literacy equivalent of an Oxbridge grad/undergrad at the age of 9.
That’s relevant in the context that my awareness and understanding were very strong, so I “soaked up” English culture and literature at a phenomenal rate.
I think I was eleven when I went to the British Embassy in Dublin and asked to return to England as a “ward of court.” I was so d-d homesick. Shortly thereafter the Embassy was blown up by the IRA.
In my late teens I had an opportunity to return and work for another British scientific research institute, but the “lesson” - irrelevant or not in the real world, but relevant to a child - of the Embassy remained, and in consideration for those dear and darling people who took me to their hearts and respected my intelligence, I dared not take the opportunity and have lived abroad.
In some ways I am a casualty of the N.Ireland conflict.
So I am interested in membership. Unsure of eligibility and would appreciate any insights with respect to Citizenship and status.
Note, I do not need this to travel and work within the EU. This infers no criticism on any other nation. it’s a matter of culture and belonging.
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That’s a very interesting question, and I am not sure what the laws are regarding membership and foreign citizenship. The Trafalgar Club would be an alternative if membership weren’t possible. I would suggest emailing the membership secretary membership@bnp.org.uk -Ed
bodica Reply:
December 11th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Thank you, Ed. Wilco.
Dear Bodica
I used to work in UK immigration and based on your background you may have a claim to either citizenship or ‘right of abode’ (which can lead to naturalisation/citizenship).
I recommend you get further professional advice on this from a UK immigration company (go to http://www.oisc.gov.uk for a list of registered practitioners, you should be offered free advice as to whether a case can be made).