XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: dave@davenoise.co.uk 
  
 In article <131020190536225483%timstreater@greenbee.net>, 
    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. 
  
 What is the phrase? No taxation without representation? That and the 
 reverse sounds OK to me. 
  
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