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Nov 22, 2024 7:46:21 GMT J.G.Harston said:

Nov 22, 2024 0:33:47 GMT cityslickr said:

Part of the ‘modernisation’ is the language battle. ‘Councillor’ for ‘councilman’, ‘Alder’ or ‘Alderperson’ or ‘Alderwoman’ for ‘Alderman’,

That's a nonsense. "Alderman" is gender neutral. It quite literally means "elder person".

Yes, of course it is a nonsense. Such are the times we live in.

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Nov 22, 2024 11:17:42 GMT timrollpickering said:

Nov 22, 2024 0:43:22 GMT cityslickr said:

The effect of this is that European Union citizens on the Ward Lists are barred from voting in Aldermanic Elections, with the exception of Maltese, Cypriot and (anomalously) Irish Citizens.

Assuming that Commonwealth citizens are voting then this overlooks the fact that citizens of republics in the Commonwealth aren't subjects of the Crown (despite what the organisation's critics claim) even though the monarch is also Head of the Commonwealth.

For that matter citizens of the other Commonwealth Realms are now technically subjects of their own Crowns even if they happen to all sit on the same head.

It is convenient to ignore some facts if you want to maintain a particular fiction.

Fascinating that the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations for eight years from 2016 was concurrently a City of London Alderman for the first six of those years (Baroness Scotland in Bishopsgate Ward).