scrubbedexpat020

Having got used to having to vote, I can't stop myself now.

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Pollyana

I've meant to sign up for ages, finally did it through this link this week - very easy online process

Beoz

Yes. I need the pound to drop so I can send some Aussie back. Bring on Ed Milliband

Swerv-o

I'm waiting for the same thing. Need to top up my Premium Bonds...


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bcworld

I consider it no longer any of my business...but if I was voting, it would be in Dundee East...and based on the way things are going in Scotland these days it'll be returned with a massive SNP majority...so no point!

Amazulu

Agree. A dose of mumbo jumbo hard-left socialism UK style will smash the UK economy and GBP

Happy days

Swerv-o

I need my UK final salary pension to increase in value too. As it's linked to inflation, I need a massive hike in inflation as well as a collapse in currency. So a Labour government could suit me too.


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Amazulu

I think the lessons they learnt in the '60s and '70s are being ignored

Ignorance is bliss

JoeBloggs80

Red Ed all the way

spouse of scouse

Great link

Just so people know, if you've been out of the country/not registered for over 15 years you can't use this online service (Scouse just tried).

scrubbedexpat020

Just been informed by my electoral officer that it's probably best to appoint a proxy instead of relying on the post.

Apply to vote by proxy - About my vote

renth

True, I seem to recall that overseas postal votes arrive back in the UK after the election and all get binned.

GarryP

The interesting thing is who the hell you could vote for.

Cameron is obviously a dumb idea; not only because of the destruction that the tories customarily dish out, but also because he's been forced into promising a vote on EU membership (and that's only going one way). Talk about jumping off a cliff without a plan.

Milliband hasn't the same baggage, but he's a charisma free zone, and also appears to have no plan.

The SNP seem guaranteed to win scotland, even though they have proved they haven't got a clue about anything, or indeed, a plan.

The others aren't going to get anywhere in a FPTP system, even UKIP don't look likely to win much.

So how could you actually employ a vote usefully? The best option would probably to get an adult elected in a marginal seat - probably a green (not great, but probably the best option out there) and hope that the balance of power (excluding the SNP) is somewhere where sense could be imposed.

BritInParis

The FPTP system means that even if you know who you want to vote for, unless you live in a marginal seat, then your vote is unlikely to count for much whoever you vote for.

astera

There goes my chance to vote...

Would probably have cast a vote for Lib Dems as the only option that will bring sense into any ruling coalition, be it Labour or Tories.

I do agree that Cameron has completely stepped over the line with his silly notion of an EU-vote as a publicity stunt. If the only sensible option is to stay then do you really want to open it up for a propaganda-fuelled free-for-all?

Any entity with an interest in destabilising the EU or the UK itself - with the intention of creating economic, political and social damage to the country - will be pumping funds into such a move. MI5 will have its hands full and will probably need to lasso in the media to prevent the country going over a cliff.