There is a difference between being out of the country and making a choice to not be part of it, obviously it requires some degree of flexibility but you should

There is a difference between being out of the country and making a choice to not be part of it, obviously it requires some degree of flexibility but you shouldn't be able to abandon the country and then expect benefits or any say in how it's run, same applies to any country. The easy other point is people who haven't even stepped foot in the country in decades are dictating to people who still live there and drawing money away despite contributing very little when they did live there and absolutely nothing for the past 20 years in their hovel in Spain or whatever the current sufferer of British expats is.