So You Don't Want To Live Here But You Want A Say On Who's In Government, Right Oh!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43172394
Does anyone else find this "votes for ex pats" cobras nonsensical?

[ToraToraTora]

"But Conservative backbencher Sir Roger Gale said Mr Martin should meet Mr Shindler, to explain to him why he, as a proud Briton, shouldn't be allowed to vote." - easy, you have moved out, you make no contribution, why should you have a say? Come to that HTF can you be a proud Briton when you moved out 35 years ago?

[cassa333]

You should have a vote in the country of your residence.

Expats should get a vote in the country where they live not somewhere else so ...

NO. They should not get a vote on domestic issues. Or on anything else here.

[Mamyalynne]

I wonder why we withdraw the franchise from Expats but other Countries don't?

Pity you can't ask Harry yourself both being ex service.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The right to vote derives from your citizenship of a country, not your address.

[ToraToraTora]

cobras

[Mamyalynne]

That's sorted then.

[tamborine]

If they retain Brit passports, they should vote. They might return to UK if the politics suit.

[Cloverjo]

I'm surprised you disagree with Mr Shindler, TTT. Expats are more likely to be right wing, I would have thought.

[Baldric]

You don't live here, you don't Vote here, simplesssssss!

[Baldric]

Cloverjo, from the Link

///Mr Shindler, who is a member of the Labour Party,///

[Cloverjo]

I've just read the BBC link again and see that Mr Schindler is a member of the Labour Party. My original thought on expats being generally right-wing still stands though.

[ToraToraTora]

I don't care how they vote, they don't like the country enough to live here so why do they even want a vote? Why do they care? Anyway even if they do get to vote, what constituency will they vote in? how will it work?

[Cloverjo]

I agree with you, TTT.

[jno]

He likes the country enough to have fought for it, which is more than most armchair heroes on AB can say, and to have refused to take out Italian citizenship.

[Jackdaw33]

A very valid point. We vote for a constituency MP so in which constituency would these people be registered?

[kvalidir]

Oh good, so I presume you have no issues with immigrants voting here then rather than in Poland or Romania or wherever?

[Theland]

Yes let them vote and then the Muslims can go and vote in whatever shot hole they crawled out of.

[gulliver1]

Of course the ex pats should be allowed to vote, why not, most of them have spent years paying into the UK system and they were born in the UK , they might want to return , good luck to them.

[ummmm]

What about British born Muslims?

[ummmm]

And anyway. Many people leave the UK for medical reasons not because they dislike their country.