application for card but can't use our own nationality

boogiemaster

I'm not English I'm Yorkshire and proud of it and no drop down menu for Yorkshire either and you B uggers in Lancashire with your queen of hearts rose

redpete

mariecc wrote: »

I will try to explain, but before anyone says this "does it matter", :mad: this is important and matters to me.

Do you travel abroad? If so have you managed to get an English passport, if you got into trouble would you insist on getting help from an English embassy or consulate?

Do you only pay taxes to an English government? Would you claim immunity from any laws passed by any body other than an English government?

Why insist on being English more than a citizen of the geographical area you live in, or the county, or the town/village?

so I won't apply on line to barclay, but will be contacting them directly unless someone can give me a good reason why I cannot answer the question.

One good reason is that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the sovereign state, also known as a country, recognised internationally as the entity of which you are a citizen and you would look foolish if you insisted otherwise.

darlyn

mariecc wrote: »

Not sure what to call this really. so here goes not exactly a card thing I suppose

Well, at least one part of your post was correct

darlyn

NFH wrote: »

Perhaps you expect Barclays to include the name of every separatist region in the world that is likewise unrecognised as a country by the international community, for example Abkhazia, Catalonia, Basque country and Somaliland. In fact, Abkhazia is recognised by six recognised countries, whereas England is recognised as a country by no recognised country, so Barclays should first add Abkhazia before they add England.

lol. :rotfl:

I wonder if Baclaycard have any customers from Abkhazia - and did they have to lie on their application ?!?!

Bravehearted_2

What an illiterate.

cos_2

I feel your pain, OP.

Our mishmash of nations is irksome. Barclaycard suggests UK but your passport says British. You are a proud Englishman and I a proud Scot.

The United Kingdom does not equal Britain; therefore being British is not the same as being a subject of the United Kingdom. Why don't people know this?

I'm just grateful that Scotland is looking at leaving the UK and trying its best to make things right for itself. I hope that the rest of the UK does well, too.

Have fun

Cos

aleph_0

Cos: What do you mean by a 'subject of the UK'. Essentially, people born in the UK (plus lots of confusing extra rules), by definition, have British Nationality, where here "Britain" means "United Kingdom". They might have not been born on the Island of Great Britain, of course.

You can, of course, feel proud to be a Scot. Just as someone else might feel proud to be a Cockney, Manx or Northern Irish. Doesn't make any of the terms an appropriate legal nationality. Which is what Barclays asked for.

sharpy2010

cos wrote: »

I feel your pain, OP.

Our mishmash of nations is irksome. Barclaycard suggests UK but your passport says British. You are a proud Englishman and I a proud Scot.

The United Kingdom does not equal Britain; therefore being British is not the same as being a subject of the United Kingdom. Why don't people know this?

I'm just grateful that Scotland is looking at leaving the UK and trying its best to make things right for itself. I hope that the rest of the UK does well, too.

Have fun

Cos

Good god. What a load of nonsense.

Rupert_Bear

mariecc wrote: »

hello all

Not sure what to call this really. so here goes not exactly a card thing I suppose

Credit card 0% barclays for two years as shown on this site and going throught this site.

Can anyone explain why we are not allowed to say what our nationality is on their application site??

I will try to explain, but before anyone says this
"does it matter", :mad: this is important and matters to me.


name and address and factual answers to questions are ok. But barclays ask country of nationality, simple question but the answer cannot be given by no one to my knowledge. My answer is English and always will be english born and bred in ENGLAND. So why on Barclays drop down box do they only let you click on UK? The UK (united kingdoms) is not a country and never has been, it is a collective term used to denote all of our countries in this land.....

I no not of any nationality for the UK? It is certainly not british.
British is a term used as the collective to depict the citizens of the combined kingdoms..... so I won't apply on line to barclay, but will be contacting them directly unless someone can give me a good reason why I cannot answer the question...

You cannot be serious!!!!!!!!!!!:rotfl:

hermante

aleph_0 wrote: »

Cos: What do you mean by a 'subject of the UK'.

Actually a "British subject" currently has a distinct legal definition, and I suspect there are very few of them left.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject

Essentially, people born in the UK (plus lots of confusing extra rules), by definition, have British Nationality,

Plus and minus (male diplomats with exceptions, if both parents are tourists or illegals not subsequently granted asylum, etc).

As a result of the empire, there are 6 types of British nationality and this won't be cleaned up until everyone alive today is dead (not to mention the rules concerning Jersey, which won't be cleaned up).

I think the country with the next most types of Nationality is Denmark (Danish, Greenlandic, Faeroer)