So, I’m not convinced that I ought to have a say either but, it is an issue in which I have an obvious interest and something which I’m being asked to pay for through my tax contribution.

I’m not *sure* I’d feel any less ambivalence about the matter if BB lived in Australia.

So is it a question of nation-state or nationality? Or administrative simplicity?

I get more of a say over education policy in Orkney, where I have no children.


(I’ve been struggling to think of a way I could have an appropriate amount of influence over West Wiltshire education policy (as the parent of someone who is a client) but not end up with an inappropriate amount of influence over other policy areas in West Wiltshire that aren’t really a legitimate concern of mine.)