XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: tims_new_home@yahoo.com 
  
 "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 news:h0f0boF6deiU1@mid.individual.net... 
 > On 12/10/2019 16:35, tim... wrote: 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> "Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message 
 >> news:5801d4258edave@davenoise.co.uk... 
 >>> In article , 
 >>>   Cursitor Doom  wrote: 
 >>>> I still have a legitimate interest, mate. And if there's another 
 >>>> Referendum I'll be voting in it again, same as before, just like 
 >>>> everyone else who voted Leave - plus not a few former Remainers who've 
 >>>> seen the light over the last 3 years. 
 >>> 
 >>> Oddly, most the polls seem to show the opposite has happened. 
 >> 
 >> very marginally 
 >> 
 >> and to less than the extent that Remain was in the lead before the last 
 >> vote 
 >> 
 >> and you know what campaigning did to that lead. 
 >> 
 >>> Wonder what the average UK voter feels about those who have fled the 
 >>> country to avoid paying taxes being allowed to vote? 
 >> 
 >> I for one think that they've got a bloody cheek complaining about being 
 >> disenfranchised - they chose to be disenfranchised. 
 > 
 > That's not as straightforward as some people seem to think. 
 > 
 > An ex-pat Brit living in (say) Spain might have a vote in local elections 
 > in their area of residence, but unless they take pout Spanish citizenship 
 > they won't be allowed to vote in Spain's parliamantary elections 
  
 I know 
  
 but that's no reason for allowing them to vote in  the UK 
  
 >(and quite right too). 
  
 I disagree that it's right 
  
 if they are permanently in a county paying taxes, they should have a vote 
 there 
  
 The solution here is to allow them a vote in Spain, not a proxy one in the 
 UK 
  
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