XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: timstreater@greenbee.net 
  
 In article , JNugent 
  wrote: 
  
 >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 (and quite right too). 
 > 
 >But unless they're allowed to vote in UK Parliamentary elections - for 
 >life - they are disenfranchised from having any say in the government of 
 >anywhere. And that cannot be right. They are not second-class people who 
 >should have fewer rights than others. 
  
 Then let 'em take out Spanish citizenship. I lived in Switzerland 12 
 years and California 12 years. I didn't expect to have a vote in either 
 location. 
  
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