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Research About Brexit.
"People who voted for Brexit are most likely to be of low intelligence . ......Smarter people were more likely to have voted remain in the EU . Says a Research from University of Bath's school of management ...........There was no need for a research. ......I could have told them that
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As expected from Gulliver and Hymie, one ignores reply to him and starts to name call the other starts a new thread as he usually does when he is not getting anywhere. Can see now why I and many others have given up posting to many of their threads as there can only be one side in their view. A debate is out of the question.
Gulliver at 10.16, if you had bothered to read my reply earlier in this thread you should know that both sides lied, only many remainers couldn't be bothered to vote or in your case couldn't vote. They just thought that there was no way they could lose and so became losers. If you and Hymie replied now and then maybe there would be a proper discussion instead of you just reverting to name calling and Hymie going off and starting a new thread.
How strange Gulliver as in the past you have always said that you couldn't vote as you don't live here. So which is it. Only once have I ever name called as you called it and that was a few years ago when I said they named Barcelona airport after you and that was after abuse from you. You really are pathetic and need to grow up.
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No you did say that you couldn't vote in the EU referendum Gulliver. So if you now say you could, did you vote. Do you remember saying this one Gulliver "Oh well , that's Brexit over and finished with , done, dusted , and buried, end of! what shall we talk about next??." What happened as you still haven't stopped going on about it and that was 7 years ago
"I probably said I could not vote at a general election and also local election but we were allowed to vote at the EU Referendum by...Postal vote."
You probably did, but you were either mistaken or were being economical with the truth.
At the time of the referendum you could register to vote in UK Parliamentary elections if you were a British citizen living overseas and had been registered to vote in the UK within the previous 15 years, or - in some circumstances - were too young to vote before you left.
When the referendum was announced it was decided to adopt the same criteria and those who had lived abroad for more than 15 years were not eligible to vote in the referendum.
This decision was actually challenged in the High Court and the decision to restrict the vote was upheld:
So, at the time of the referendum, the qualifying criteria to be registered to vote in both Parliamentary elections and the referendum were identical. If you were a registered voter living overseas you could vote in both. And obviously that would be by postal vote as it would be a nonsense to expect people to travel from all over the world simply to mark a cross on a voting paper (without even considering where they would actually go to do so).
So this statement:
"I probably said I could not vote at a general election....but we were allowed to vote at the EU Referendum by...Postal vote."
is incorrect. If you could vote in the referendum, you could vote in a General Election. So never try and kid a kidder as you will soon be found out.
You are correct with local elections - overseas voters are only eligible to vote in Parliamentary elections.
You may be interested to learn that from 1st January next year, the 15 year rule is being removed for Parliamentary elections but this does not apply to referendums. The qualification for each one will still be decided individually.
