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There is a long and distinguished history of people — usually journalists — observing and commenting upon the politics of other nations. It is what I am doing right now. It is quite another matter for a foreigner to come to a country that is about to have an exercise in democracy and actively to engage in the debate — a debate in which he or she has no vote and from which he or she will not directly feel the consequences.
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Simon Heffer is political columnist of the Daily Mail.
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