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0 pointsliveoneggs2d ago0 comments

I mean - EU nationals are not a part of the UK so why would they be able to vote on things in the UK? French people don't vote in UK elections, as far as I understand it.

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subscribed2d ago· 2 in thread

They pay taxes, serve in local bodies, work in the government organise events, own properties and companies, send their children to schools, etc, etc.

Are you suggesting they do not belong or that they do not have the best interest of the communities in mind? Living here sometimes for decades, committing to their chosen home.

Thankfully they can vote in local elections, and I don't think there's suggestion in the UK it's somewhow inappropriate, so why would someone from the outside had a say in what's right and what's wrong?

liveoneggsOP2d ago

it's just very confusing to me that immigrants from the EU might get more rights (voting) than immigrants from, for example, Japan if neither group had become UK citizens since brexit

subscribed2d ago

Ah, I thought you're singling EU citizens out.

To the best of my knowledge there's no difference as of now. These lies from the pledge were probably the way to get the EU countries more sympathetic to his hostile EU cooperation attitude (how Starmer didn't get a schizophrenia from all these entirely opposite stances is beyond me).

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