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Yes, it probably is a valid complaint. However, a student lives in an area for most of the year for (almost) the duration of a parliament. They're entitled to representation there.
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I didn't mean to come across as agreeing with the complaints, more pointing out that the validity only works if you think of individual cases (eg those about to graduate) and conveniently forget that your "big universities" town is going to stay that way and (hopefully) always be full of pesky students...
hoefla
I do think it's a valid complaint that a student, two weeks from leaving their university town forever, votes there. On the other hand they vote in the interests of students in general, and those towns remain university towns, even if the individual students are themselves 'transient'. Something none of those letters seem to have any awareness of.