XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: jenningsltd@fastmail.fm 
  
 On 13/10/2019 05:36, Tim Streater wrote: 
 > 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. 
  
 Why not? 
  
 Explain why any citizen should be completely disenfranchised (other then 
 your suspicion that they won't vote the "right" way, I mean). 
  
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