XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk 
 From: jenningsltd@fastmail.fm 
  
 On 13/10/2019 17:00, tim... wrote: 
 > 
 > 
 > "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 > news:h0gsu8Fiau1U1@mid.individual.net... 
 >> On 13/10/2019 15:47, JNugent wrote: 
 >>> On 13/10/2019 14:57, Ian Jackson wrote: 
 >>>> In message , JNugent 
 >>>>  writes 
 >>>>> On 13/10/2019 05:33, Tim Streater wrote: 
 >>>>>> 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. 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Not everyone who lives in Spain is necessarily entitled to Spanish 
 >>>>> citizenship. 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Spain isn't the UK (with its exceptionally lax controls on 
 >>>>> citizenship), after all. 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>> Have you seen the hoops that would-be UK citizens now have to jump 
 >>>> through (and the expense of it all)? Some native, well-educated UK 
 >>>> citizens would be unable to pass some of the tests. I did this one 
 >>>> (admittedly at lightning speed), and only got 83%. Fortunately, that 
 >>>> counts as a pass! 
 >>>> https://lifeintheuktestweb.co.uk/british-citizenship-test-4/ 
 >>> 
 >>> You can bypass all that by being a "refugee". 
 >> 
 >> [100%, by the way - even the trickiest question (minimum age to stand 
 >> for Parliament).] 
 > 
 > I had no idea what type of literature the Canterbury Tales are 
  
 I just vaguely remembered that the lines sort of rhyme. Given the few 
 options available, that was the only one that was feasible. 
  
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