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From: cdsm@icdoc.UUCP (Chris Moss)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish,net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Apartheid on the West Bank
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 08:03:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 08:03:58 1985
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>  In article <175@hector.UUCP> martillo@hector.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) writes:
>  >Moreover, the British government and the French government have taken
>  > care that British and French remain voting majorities in their respective
>  >nations.  For both countries this has been a problem because many colonial
>  >subjects had British or French citizenship. 

> Can you back this up?  I may have blinked, but I do not remember any law in
> Britain restricting voting of non-white citizens.  Please enlighten us....
 
Bit of an oversimplification but not far from the truth: a few years ago 
there were around 600 million people in the world with British passports
(I think); now they no longer have right of abode in Britain or 1st class
British citizenship. The British Nationality Act of 1982 even took away
the rights of the Falkland Islanders to come to Britain, until someone
realised they had made a bloomer!!

The French situation is not too different.