Having a vote in British Elections
Dec 12th 2013, 7:47 am
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Having a vote in British Elections
Hi is anyone following Richard Graham et al in their attempts to secure the rights of British ex-pats to a vote in the UK?
This concerns those of us who have lived outside the UK for over 15yrs and have therefore lost the right to a vote..Britain is one of the very few countries that implement this rule
Normally wouldn't be of too much concern..but if the UK votes to remove itself from the EU this could impact hugely on the 5.5million of us living outside the country but receiving UK pensions..The plan being not to bring countries like Australia in line with the rest re-index linked pensions…but to go the other way and make the majority of us accept non index linked ones…
At the moment I like many others cannot vote in the UK or in Portugal..(apart from local elections)
Anyone know of a forum which is covering this aspect of ex-pat living?
p.s these issues are being discussed in Parliament right now
This concerns those of us who have lived outside the UK for over 15yrs and have therefore lost the right to a vote..Britain is one of the very few countries that implement this rule
Normally wouldn't be of too much concern..but if the UK votes to remove itself from the EU this could impact hugely on the 5.5million of us living outside the country but receiving UK pensions..The plan being not to bring countries like Australia in line with the rest re-index linked pensions…but to go the other way and make the majority of us accept non index linked ones…
At the moment I like many others cannot vote in the UK or in Portugal..(apart from local elections)
Anyone know of a forum which is covering this aspect of ex-pat living?
p.s these issues are being discussed in Parliament right now
