Re: So you can Vote in the UK election.....?
 

Somewhere in that is a poem or limerick. If only I could think of something that rhymes with election.

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I don't know how long we will be able to stay registered to vote in the UK but it's 6 years we've done so. A postal vote won't work due to the timing issues so you need to declare a proxy voter to vote on your behalf. The last time the registration was renewed the system had gone electronic so it was quite easy.

It will most likely be a conservative vote for a fairly safe conservative seat in the north east of England (yes there is such a thing). I recall the previous labour approach in the seat was pretty unappealing class war based. If I lived in Surrey still it would be liberal (token vote against local conservative landslide) and if in Dundee West it would be labour to stop the SNP tosser with the goatee.

I thought Cleggy did ok in the leaders debate. Another conservative/liberal coalition would probably work out for the best but seems a bit unlikely.

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is he asking for the same system? I'd been living/working here for almost 3 years before I had my medical.

The problem with what he's asking is that aids victims are almost always coming from countries where there are humanitarian issues- war, famine, genocide, etc.

It's a cruel and racist policy. People who claim Farage isn't racist need their head feeling...

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Yes he is asking for the same system. If in that 3+ years before (presumably) you obtained PR, you had been diagnosed with HIV would you have been entitled to free treatment or even been allowed to stay? Your application would've most likely been rejected on the grounds that you are medically inadmissible, unless there were extenuating circumstances.

People coming from war torn countries seeking asylum would not be affected, they come under a different set of rules. We are talking about general immigrants here.

It is unbelievably offensive that you would call this a 'racist policy', aids does not discriminate or have borders, it affects many westerners too, therefore race doesn't come into it. You are adding to the stigma that it's an African disease.

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Nice try. How many "general immigrants" with HIV/AIDS emigrate to the uk? Not enough to be statistically relevant to the d3bate.

But yes I could have moved to canada, riddled with all kinds of infectious and contagious diseases, and received teatment, simply on the back of a TWP. I could have had all kinds of criminal convictions, dozens of kids, sent all my benefits back to the UK, and it would all have been Kosher. But I'm white, so it's ok. I've had immigration debates with Canadians who've told me that I "don't count" because I'm white.

Of course it's racist. The only people who think it's isn't are those who simply don't like thinking of themselves as racist.

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You don't need to emigrate, a cheapo student visa to a community college will get you in, and once you're in....

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Most of you have voted with your feet, anyway. ;)

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:goodpost:

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I did register to vote because I kept getting these stupid pop-up ads from gov.uk and then I realized when I woke up the next day what a bloody stupid thing I just did because HMRC count that as a tie for tax purposes, also I have a feeling I've just signed up for the possibility of jury duty.

So then the council sent me an e-mail saying that I'm registered and I've had to write back telling them to cancel it!

I don't even know why I did it, I don't really follow British politics anyway, couldn't care less.

Really, this is a way of getting more tory votes because expats tend to vote tory so the govt is advertising this because they think it will help them.

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I'm normally a green voter but I'll lend my vote to SNP this election.

I hope we get a ToryUKIP coalition government who pulls the UK out of the EU in a year. Scotland then runs an emergency referendum to stay in and we finally get the independence we desperately need. Just wipe everything clean and start again from scratch.

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I don't think that UKIP's 6 seats will help the Tories, and that's the number the pollsters are suggesting they might get, The current 'state of the polls' is for the Tories to get 280 seats, Labour 277, Ukip 6, lib/dems 25, SNP 46. There will be no coalition between 2 parties to get a majority of seats, and the big 2 wll need the support of several parties to get an absolute majority, and, incredibly, they are talking about the biggest party running a minority government, so they will only put through policies that mean they will get support form several of the smaller parties, so out will go the EU referendum for one thing.

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Interesting map regarding UKIP support.

Mapped: where is Ukip's support strongest? Where there are no immigrants - Telegraph