XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk 
 From: tims_new_home@yahoo.com 
  
 "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 
  
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