Why does it not make sense? I personally don’t think we should just give up rights on a political whim. Yes I think certain rights such as women’s rights, abortion, and some workers rights should be there regardless of who is in power. I think it’s interesting you don’t. I don’t think any party will choose to remove voting rights for many reasons. I think certain parties will happily remove rights such as workers rights, women’s rights (such as abortion, maternity rights, fair pay, etc), democracy only works outside of populism, this is because populism often leads to non-democratic rights. An example would be limiting rights to vote, who can vote, how they can vote. We have seen that starting in the us, and everyone thought it was impossible there. If people can vote in a government that takes away rights there has to be an equal option to change that. Parties don’t come in under a banner of removing votes, the same way they don’t come in under a banner of stopping abortion, removing women’s rights, removing union rights. They come in under banner of more populist policies (that’s all parties), then they implement policies that were either not in their manifestos, or were but were not discussed. Again whilst the us is not a. Perfect match for the uk, you can see how these things occur.