Are you still resident in the UK for tax purposes, out of interest Owen?
Or enjoying the 17% top rate in Hong Kong as a non-resident and still retaining all the voting rights and privileges as the rest of us and still getting to slag off the immigrants?
To me this doesn't compute.
He's Welsh and thus British.....Not everyone recognises the importance of their ethnicity of course and that's for them but nevertheless that's his genetics and thus he's intrinsically part of the British diaspora no matter where he is in the world.
So he's likely going to have an interest in and an opinion on British matters.
That's independent of where he pays tax.....That's a financial transaction that nearly everyone (super-rich excepted) around the world are forced into via threat of force....It's not a British loyalty check. People do that independent of their loyalty because they aren't given an option.
People with your politics Dan have diluted what being British is into just universal values, which essentially means anyone can be British...Whereas for many of us loyalty matters......Perhaps for you it just means who is paying tax and is interchangeable but I and many others reject that view.
For you perhaps, someone off the boat paying tax into the system is British because he's contributing, but no thanks....most of the world disagrees with this notion of nationality and thus regard ownership and affinity with that nation as important. The person off the boat is 9 out of 10 here for personal economic interest and would flee the country as soon as things worsened.
Allegiance means that when he has an opinion on the land of his fathers.....people who care about that land....don't just dismiss it. Maybe he's abroad because he married a foreigner from there or was employed there or likes the sodding country...there are a hundred and one reasons why someone might live abroad.
It doesn't change what someone is...that's in someone's DNA and culture.
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