Thread: british passport

Originally Posted by dullbird

interesting are you from the UK lardy? As I believe both me and Ian are not allowed to give blood......as we were residing in the UK at the time of mad cows disease.

this is what i wrote:
if it's a blood thing then it's twaddle their blood is the same as mine ...though the mozzies think mine is richer !!!
And as most 2nd Australians that have hung around on this continent over the last couple of hundred are european what's the difference....not only am i getting bogun lessons now...... i am going to the red cross centre tomorrow to get a true blue blood transfusion so i fit in more maybe it's not enough that the government, and migration agents fleeced me on the way over they want blood now too????


AS IN I AM RECEIVING A TRUE BLUE 100% BLOOD TRANSFUSION SO I AM AUSSIE IN BLOOD NOT JUST IN PAPER SO I FIT IN MORE !!

Originally Posted by Reads90

Same here , i can't give blood as i am one of the thatchers children

same same although i gave blood in the uk up until i left what a bloody waste, maybe they should set up blood for poms only ....then there would be more for the true aussies (not us)

Originally Posted by Reads90

Same here , i can't give blood as i am one of the thatchers children

Even Aussies who just visited the UK (say for a fortnights holiday) after a certain year can't give blood here either. This mad cow thing is probably more serious than we all get to know about.

Jon

If I can give my 2 cents worth here

Blood
Anyone who has lived in Europe for 6 months (not sure this was about 3 years ago) cannot give blood.

This is due to problems with disease in Europe generally. Not sure about the technicalities of it but is not just Mad Cow disease. Even in Europe a lot of blood products have to be imported (most from USA) as they cannot use locally obtained blood due to these problems and cost / ability to cleanse the blood of the problems. Very untechnical however this came from a friend who is senior in the Australian Red Cross blood bank.

Passports
Dual passports is only a recient event in Australia. While some had them before if found the Australian citizenship was immediately cancelled.

One of the main drivers of the change was that some countires would not let you renounce thier citizenship. So if these people became Australain citizens they would then have problems as were still dual. Came to a head when a Greek ancestory persoN was elected to parliment however could not take place as could not hold Australain citizenship.

There are plenty of examples of people who are third or fourth generation Australian with the usual ethnic mixed up multi breeding lineage background with only the surname to connect them who have ended up doing military service as the name fits.

Had one customer who did a runner to Israel as had dual passports. Forget military service requirement and was taken away at the airport. As you would expect the Australian governrnent would not assist as was a citizen of Israel. We were writing to the fox hole on the Golan heights. Think it would have been easier to stay and face us.