Are you talking about British or English, Scotish (NI) Irish and Welsh?
British, as it reads.
All these countries have independence from Britain,they wanted independence they have their own nationalities now and they made it clear they wanted out and to break away from Britain so tell me why they should be given any preferential treatment because (snip).
They shouldn't be. The way of thinking that you have just presented here is exactly my point. It's about their identities, and not about blood. They don't think they are British, so they aren't.
Yoshi, British is a term that seems these days to apply to anyone born on this Island or rocked up here and stayed for a few years to get a passport.
I didn't create that problem.
If you look at forms that ask questions about your ethnicity, you will always see a part that says (for instance) "Chinese" so whilst a Chinese person has a British passport and was possibly born here and speaks broad Manc, he is still Chinese, hence the new wording "British born" {ethnicity} - this is to keep a check on the "diversity" in the UK...
You are obviously confusing ethnicity (English, Irish, Chinese, Pakistani, etc) and national identity (British).
A British person can be English, Irish, Scotish, Chinese or just anything. It's all about whether the person feels comfortable with the fundamental values that Britain represents. A British-born Chinese is a Chinese person who identifies oneself as Chinese, but just happened to be born in Britain. Such person isn't really British.
So, a British-born British citizen who beats his 16-y/o daughter into marrying a 60-y/o cousin is not quite British in my opinion.