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UK has 7% of its Brits Abroad – Why disenfranchise them?
The Mail Online article below reveals that the UK has the 8th highest expat rate in the world with 7% (4.5 million) of the British population living abroad and the top three destinations Australia (1.2 million), the US (700,000) and … Continue reading
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Tagged 15-year-rule, 2015 General Election, British expatriates, national voting rights
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Wasted opportunity from 5 million Britons Abroad
This article below in The Economist doesn’t adhere to some popular prejudices about Britons abroad : “Some 5m Britons live abroad. The country could do far more to exploit its high-flying expats.” The Economist, August 9th 2014: The British diaspora … Continue reading
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Tagged 15-year-rule, 2015 General Election, British expatriates, national voting rights
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Australia, US, Canada, Spain, France grant full overseas voting rights.
The purpose of the briefing note below by CReAM (Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration), is to inform the UK’s national discussion about immigration. Immigration is a key issue not only for British citizens in the UK but also concerns British expatriate … Continue reading
Posted in All EU Brits Need Voice, Canada Grants Full Voting Rights, Diaspora is National Resource, Expats Contribute to UK, Exporting for Britain, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas, Voting from Australia, Voting Rights, Why Low Expat Voting Rates
Tagged 15-year-rule, British expatriates, EU Referendum, national voting rights
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Some 35% of British Electorate are Non-Voters
Some 16 million British citizens, or around 35% of those eligible to vote in the 2010 general election, did not do so according to this article in The Economist of 7th December 2013 “Stay-at-home voters: The reluctant kingmakers“. This 35% … Continue reading
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Tagged 15-year-rule, British expatriates, EU Referendum, national voting rights
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British Expats are “Spectators to Democracy”
As British expatriates are we fairly represented in Westminster? The answer must be no given the historically low turnout rates (a maximum of only some 30,000 registered to vote out of 5 – 6 million), and political disenfranchisement anyway after … Continue reading
Posted in All EU Brits Need Voice, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, British Expat Spectators, Diaspora is National Resource, Expat Democracy: France vs UK, Lord Lexden: All-Party Inquiry, Low Turnout - Not No Vote, Low Turnouts: both UK & US, Older Generation More Impacted, Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS, Voting Rights, Voting Rights:UK-Scots or EU-Brits, Why Low Expat Voting Rates
Tagged 15-year-rule, British expatriates, EU Referendum, national voting rights
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100,000 Overseas Voters Would Represent an Important Constituency.
Surely it should be possible to attract at least 100,000 British citizens living abroad to register to vote in good time for the next general election in May 2015? This number of expatriate voters would represent much more than an average-sized UK … Continue reading
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Expat Irish Show “Votes-for-expat-Brits” the way!
Exploiting the power of new communications technologies to gather the views and opinions of the worldwide Irish diaspora on national voting rights, Ireland has demonstrated that its own expatriates are not “detached” from their homeland but as Irish citizens want a say in … Continue reading
British Expats also Contribute to the UK Economy
Despite what some politicians might suggest in denying them the vote, many British expats not only contribute to the UK economy via the taxes they continue to pay on eg their public sector pensions or the local council tax, energy, … Continue reading
Posted in All EU Brits Need Voice, Diaspora is National Resource, Expats Contribute to UK, Exporting for Britain, Lord Lexden: Reasons to Remove 15 yr Limit, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas, Voting Rights, Voting Rights:UK-Scots or EU-Brits
Tagged 15-year-rule, British expatriates, EU Referendum, national voting rights
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Overseas Voting Letter from Margaret Hales, a descendant of Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst
Read this well argued, 5-point submission (from which extracts are given below) to the House of Lords All-Party Working Group on Overseas Voting from Margaret Hales , who has lived in Spain for nearly seven years and is a descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst the … Continue reading
Posted in All-Party Inquiry Launch, Diaspora is National Resource, Evidence to All-Party Inquiry, Improving Overseas Reg/voting Rates, Lord Lexden: All-Party Inquiry, Lord Lexden: Reasons to Remove 15 yr Limit, Margaret Hales Overseas Voting Letter, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas
Tagged 15-year-rule, All-Party Inquiry, British expatriates, Emmeline Pankhurst, EU Referendum
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Liberal Democrats Call for Expat Brit Voting Rights
The Brussels & Europe Liberal Democrats have called for the vote to be given back to all British citizens living abroad. [This complements the efforts of Lord Lexden who has already secured political support for an all-party inquiry on overseas … Continue reading
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Votes for Expat Brits blog 