While nowadays any freeman of the City of London who is on a ward list can stand for election in any ward, an important point has to be considered:
Is a freeman automatically a FULL CITIZEN of this great City of ours?
The answer is, in legal terms, no, he or she is not, in a complete sense, a full citizen.
A Citizen also needs to be ordinarily a resident inhabitant of the City.
The Court of Common Council is filled with Freemen. Only a small minority are resident inhabitants - full citizens.
We here live in a residential ward, where we have three bona fide citizens of the City standing for election.
I say to the residents of Portsoken: the Common Council already has enough freemen non-resident councilmen. Whatever you do in this election, I urge you to vote for a Citizen, not someone foreign to the ward, who just happens to have possession of the freedom of London.
Is a freeman automatically a FULL CITIZEN of this great City of ours?
The answer is, in legal terms, no, he or she is not, in a complete sense, a full citizen.
A Citizen also needs to be ordinarily a resident inhabitant of the City.
The Court of Common Council is filled with Freemen. Only a small minority are resident inhabitants - full citizens.
We here live in a residential ward, where we have three bona fide citizens of the City standing for election.
I say to the residents of Portsoken: the Common Council already has enough freemen non-resident councilmen. Whatever you do in this election, I urge you to vote for a Citizen, not someone foreign to the ward, who just happens to have possession of the freedom of London.
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