XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: timstreater@greenbee.net 
  
 In article , JNugent 
  wrote: 
  
 >On 12/10/2019 23:47, ZakJames wrote: 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 >> news:h0f0boF6deiU1@mid.individual.net... 
  
 >>> 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. 
 >> 
 >> That€€€s always been the case with those who choose not 
 >> to take up citizenship in the place they choose to move 
 >> to. They are in fact second class people by that choice 
 >> and rightly so imo. 
 > 
 >"That's always been the case". 
 > 
 >But it shouldn't be. There is no case to be made for disenfranchising 
 >anyone. 
  
 Yes there is. There's no case for allowing them to vote for elections 
 in somewhere where they don't live. 
  
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