It is an easy mistake to confuse an accident of birth with an "interest". In Australia, one or two MP's fell foul of this because they had citizenship rights through birth that they were not even aware of. This does make the point very well. If you can have a right to citizenship and not even know you've got it, it does show that citizenship, or the the right to it, in itself is pretty meaningless.As a thought experiment, kidnap a Chinese baby and raise them in the UK. When they're 30, tell them they're not British but Chinese. See what transpires.On another note, not only do foreigners get a vote in the Conservative leadership, but anyone from a Commonwealth country living here - India, Pakistan, Jamaica, Australia etc gets to vote in a general election. Now that IS bizarre. Moreover, should the country leave the Commonwealth they lose that vote, but regain it if the country rejoins (as the Maldives and South Africa did). The Commonwealth has over 50 member countries now, some of which were never British territories.
Michael Winstanley ● 1045d