The elections are usually always the first Thursday of May and are not usually announced until approximately 1 month beforehand. This will be the first time in a number of years I have not supervised at the vote count!

Couldn't give a shit. It's an election in a country I left.

Gaelic is alive and well,no thanks to the likes of you and yer lot who tried to destroy it and our culture

So, you only care about your little bubble, and the rest of the world can go to hell?

That sound about right?

Well, call me old fashioned if you like, but I mainly care about my home, which is Australia.

Clearly I'd pay attention if there was a civil war in the yookay, but the four yearly trade-in from one set of corrupt useless wind-bags for a different set of corrupt useless wind-bags I could not give two shits.

Still, whatever floats your boat I guess.

Ooh, I love these exotic-sounding foreign languages!

I remember my ex co-director once trying to take the mick by asking "So what's the Welsh word for computer?".
Cyfrifiadur says I.
It was funny watching his sails deflate so quickly.

Sorry. I forgot the topic of the thread for a moment.

Go Gordon. You're the man to put things right

'cos he certainly knows he things got wrong...

Have to say, I agree with this. It's not like there's any choice at the moment over there and no matter who gets the votes, it's not going to change much in the next few years.

I know I'm extremely grateful I'm not there thinking about who to vote for, it's bad enough here. I don't think it's a case of not caring about the UK, I love the place but I personally don't think I have a right to vote and make a decision about a place I no longer live in or am likely to for years. In that respect this election is irrelevant to me, not because I don't care but because I made a decision to move away.

I know lots of people continue voting after moving away but I think that's wrong, I think we should lose the right to vote. Just my opinion though, don't expect others to agree.

I agree actually - British citizens can still register to vote in the UK even if they haven't even been there for (up to) 15 years. Someone who pays no taxes, has no property or assets, no pension, no friends, no relatives, no passport, no other connection or interest to the UK and will be affected only marginally by the outcome can still vote in UK (general) elections. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who live, work, pay tax etc and don't have the right to vote. It's very unfair and I would support the right to vote being cut off from people who don't live in the UK (turkey voting for Xmas, I suppose).

But at the same time, as long as I am allowed to vote, I will...

Who are the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who are not allowed to vote? Other than those under 18 of course.

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