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[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

My wife has lived in the UK for 20 years on an EU passport, she was 12 when she moved here, she is directly impacted by general elections as are all of us who live in the UK. This is the first year she can vote in one of these elections because we finally scrapped the money together to apply for her citizenship.

How does someone who has not lived in the country for 50 years have more of a say than the people living here. It doesn't make sense.