Is there any difference between being a British citizen and a British subject?
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According to Wiki
---British subjects
British subjects (as defined in the 1981 Act) are those British subjects who were not CUKCs (Citizens of the UK and Colonies) or citizens of any other Commonwealth country. Most of these derived their status as British subjects from British India or the Republic of Ireland as they existed before 1949.
British citizens
British Citizens usually hold this status through a connection with the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man ("United Kingdom and Islands"). Former Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKCs) who possessed right of abode under the Immigration Act 1971 through a connection with the United Kingdom and Islands generally became British citizens on 1 January 1983. ---
Sort of. There's a British Citizen and a British Citizen Overseas. The overseas version has no automatic right of residence in the UK.
A British subject is more likely to be put in the front line of a war.
The people of Britain are firstly British Citizens of Great Britain and also citizens of the European Union [EU].
The word subject was applied to all Britons prior to entry into the EEC [EU]. We were in effect 'subjects' of the monarch, [the Queen].
Some Britons prefer to be known as 'subjects' while others prefer 'citizen'. This may simply be a way of showing a persons loyalty - either to the Queen or simply the State.
It really is not as clear and open as I have tried to express it above, but that is basically the case.
If a person is a loyalist or royalist, they may prefer to be known as British Subjects. This then associated them with the Monarch.
Others may wish to be known as citizens, which associates them more with a kind of republican notion of citizenship as in France for example or the USA.
It's freedom of choice.
A British citizen is one of those people who are having their country given away to the Brussels dictatorship. A British subject is some one ruled from Westminster but living in one of the Colonial islands. These people are not dictated to by Brussels and have their own Governor to run the country properly and better than any British politician could.
We are subjects of the Queen.
We are here to 'serve' her and we are certainly not Citizens. . that would mean we have some sort of rights in this country, which we do not.
I would have said that a British Subject is someone who was born and raised in the UK whereas a British Citizen can be a person born here OR someone who comes from another country and has gone through the qualifying period as a British resident.
But then I could be wrong. Just my opinion.
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