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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2019-09-23 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2019-09-23 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
If all foreign national living in the UK have the right to vote, doesn't that in practice make them UK citizens.

I'm not aware of any other meaningful differences between residents and citizens that make a difference to most people. (Most people not intending to stand for election to Parliament etc.)
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[personal profile] errolwi 2019-09-24 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
'etc' including serve in armed forces (this impacts a reasonable number of NZers in Australia), senior civil service positions?
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2019-09-24 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think there is a nationality requirement for serving in the UK armed forces. See Ghurkas and the many Republic of Ireland men who signed up during the second world war.

Senior civil service - yeah you might run in to problems if you are working in a sensitve area and handling "eyes only" stuff. Again, I don't think there is a nationality bar.
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[personal profile] dewline 2019-09-23 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
3. Yep. Trump has his Roy Cohn. This report-suppression is one more symptom of that.
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[personal profile] dreema 2019-09-24 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I shared the rubber chicken link (which i thought was awesome) with a few friends. The main response was pretty much 'Wtf did i just watch?'