Our Voice in Brussels
#16
Re: Our Voice in Brussels
I think he means that you only retain the right to vote (usually by post) in UK elections for 15 years once you have ceased to be UK resident.
#17
Re: Our Voice in Brussels
Shame, I thought for a moment that I'd just become non-existant, which no doubt would have sorted a thousand and one problems in one fell swoop,
#18
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Re: Our Voice in Brussels
Fred's right, that is what I meant
I dunno, on a quiet day you go and have a meal and it all happens............
France IIRC altered their rules and you retain the right to vote until you die, but the UK still has this 15 year rule, despite an Eu Rights case involving a guy in Italy who has been out of the country longer than 15 years.
Don't know where it comes from, but if you are British then I would have thought you would retain your right but Ho Hum
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I dunno, on a quiet day you go and have a meal and it all happens............
France IIRC altered their rules and you retain the right to vote until you die, but the UK still has this 15 year rule, despite an Eu Rights case involving a guy in Italy who has been out of the country longer than 15 years.
Don't know where it comes from, but if you are British then I would have thought you would retain your right but Ho Hum
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#19
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Re: Our Voice in Brussels
Curious fact - Felipe Gonzalez, then president, wanted the foreign Europeans to vote in the 1995 local elections in Spain, and it was his 'Ministro de la Presidencia', one Alfredo PĂ©rez Rubalcaba (the guy who took away our Residence cards a few years back), who wouldn't allow it, fearing we would all vote for the PP. A jackass.