spainrico

Update for Brits voting rights

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g...-right-to-vote

dougal03

So we won't know what is happening until after 23 Feb.Is that correct?

spainrico

Yes has to go through second reading process.

EsuriJohn

The key will be if the Government will apply a whip to defeat the bill. It would be in their interest to do just that if their chance of defeat at either a GE or a referendum is improved!

Bridie55

Sorry, if you don't live in a country why have you the right to vote for what happens laws etc. Just because you used to live and or paid into a system when you lived there you chose to leave to live in another country.

bobd22

I would ask you why you shouldn't retain voting rights? You retain British Citizenship different if you renounce that. Are you also aware very many British Expats because they have Government Pensions must pay tax on those pensions to the UK so if you pay tax why shouldn't you have a right to vote for who will spend your money?

Bridie55

Because you don't live there...

Fred James

I’m not so worried about voting in UK general elections, but to be refused the right to vote in the referendum was not acceptable, as clearly that has a direct effect on expats in the EU.

Bridie55

But you don't live in the UK so why do you think you have a voice.

Rosemary

The post quoted below is why people believe that they should have the right to vote.

Rosemary

Bridie55

I repeat but you don't live there.

Bridie55

The vote was a UK decision for people who live in the UK. If you don't live in the UK you don't have that vote.

BritInParis

You also don't get voting rights just by living in any given country. Citizenship confers voting rights, not residence.

lurchio

Is that the ONLY reason that you have? So the great British democracy that I lived most of my life under has people that are prepared and happy to make life decisions for fellow citizens when those persons have NO say in the matter?

Whats democratic about that? Shall I give my passport back, out of sight out of mind, would that be better?

I am a British Citizen, I do not live there at present, but I have family there, pay tax there and have contributed there all my working life.

I do not consider anyone has the right to decide anything for me, and I seem to remember wars were fought to preserve that right.

Get over it, its about time it happened. Just pray there's not a second referendum and every ex pat gets a vote!

mikemike

I have no voting rights anywhere.

I make fiscal contributions to the Uk treasury and I firmly believe that taxation without representation is unacceptable, wars have been fought over this.

Stop taxing me in the UK, then I would accept no to a vote, not until.