Categories to browse
+5 million British Expats Abroad 100000 Overseas Voters All EU Brits Need Voice Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU Benefits of Internet Voting Diaspora is National Resource Electoral Commission Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg. EU Ref. & Votes for Life Bills EU Ref. excluded British Expats React EU Ref: Overseas Electors - Counter Arguments EU Ref Question - Lord Lexden 6 July 2015 EU Ref Votes for Life Response European Court of Human Rights Expat Vote in 2015 Expat Voter Registration French Expat Voters French Inspire 1 million Overseas Voters Harry Shindler Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote Harry Shindler Presses PM. Harry Shindler vs UK IER for Overseas Voters. Improving Overseas Reg/voting Rates Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination Military Covenant Neglected overseas voters Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS Voting Rights
Category Archives: Lord Lexden Continues Challenge
Time to Lobby over British Expat Vote in EU Referendum
This article in The Connexion – Time to lobby over expat vote – is urging British expatriates to lobby peers in the House of Lords to extend the right to vote in the referendum to all Britons who live in the EU: … Continue reading
Posted in All EU Brits Need Voice, All EU.Res. Expat Brits in EU.Ref., EU Ref Question - Lord Lexden 6 July 2015, EU Ref Votes for Life Response, Lobby for Expat EU Ref. Vote, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Lord Lexden: All-Party Inquiry, Lord Lexden: Reasons to Remove 15 yr Limit
Tagged 15-year-rule, All-Party Inquiry, British expatriates, EU Referendum, Liberal Democrats, Lord Lexden, Votes for Life Bill 2015-16
Leave a comment
Launch of All Party Inquiry into Overseas Voting
Note: For those British expats who might wish to attend or submit written evidence , particularly with input on how to encourage substantially more overseas voters, the next meetings of the All Party Inquiry into Overseas Voting are now scheduled for 27th June … Continue reading
Lord Lexden Success : All Party Inquiry on Overseas Voting Rights.
The 23rd of January, Lord Lexden returned with some success to the Overseas Voting Rights question, at the House of Lords Committee report stage of the Electoral Registration & Administration Bill (ERA). There is final recognition that this issue is … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Benefits of Internet Voting, Brain Drain Voting Link, Diaspora is National Resource, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., French Inspire 1 million Overseas Voters, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Lord Lexden: All-Party Inquiry, Lord Lexden: Reasons to Remove 15 yr Limit, Voting Rights
Tagged British expatriates, Lord Lexden, national voting rights
4 Comments
Lord Lexden: Reasons Why Should Remove 15-Year-Limit..
Lord Lexden set out in full the reasons why all British citizens living overseas should have the right to vote in British elections when the House of Lords debated his amendments to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill on January … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, 6-11 Million Unable to Vote, Benefits of Internet Voting, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., French Inspire 1 million Overseas Voters, Harry Shindler vs UK, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Lord Lexden: Reasons to Remove 15 yr Limit, Low Turnouts: both UK & US, New Clause 3 Withdrawn, Voting Rights
Tagged British expatriates, Harry Shindler, Lord Lexden, national voting rights, politics
1 Comment
Overseas Voter Focal Point for Action – Referendum on EU Membership.
Jeremy Fillenham – 6 days ago “With 2,250 votes registered on this site in some 2 years, votes for expats would appear to be a less than burning issue as far as most of us are concerned. Either the majority … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Low Turnouts: both UK & US, Neglect or Apathy, Overseas Voter Focal Point, Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS, Voting Rights
Tagged British expatriates, EU Referendum, national voting rights, politics
1 Comment
Voting Rights Blog Statistics – Year 2012 in review
The statistical report below shows that this blog received a total of 5,400 views from visitors to the site during 2012. Visits during 2012 were received from a total of 71 countries, most from France but with the UK and … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Harry Shindler vs UK, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, James Preston Case, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Neglect or Apathy, Voting Rights, Why bother to vote, Year 2012 Statistics
Tagged British expatriates, Harry Shindler, human rights, national voting rights, politics
2 Comments
Voting Rights: UK-Scots or EU-Brits
Referenda planned on Scottish independence or becoming increasingly likely on UK membership of the European Union (EU), pose some interesting questions on the voting rights of British citizens living in Scotland, the United Kingdom (UK) or within the EU. There … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, 6-11 Million Unable to Vote, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, IER for Overseas Voters., Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Overseas Voters & IER Bill, Voting Rights, Voting Rights:UK-Scots or EU-Brits
Tagged British expatriates, national voting rights, politics
1 Comment
The Hard-Won-Easily-Lost Right to Vote.
The historically, hard-won right to vote in a democratic British society was not willingly conceded by the political class at the time, but equally can still be rather easily lost again through political calculation or neglect e.g. as in the case of the … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Democracy in Terminal Decline, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., European Court of Human Rights, Hard-Won Right to Vote, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Low Turnout - Not No Vote, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas, Voting Rights, Younger Generation Voters
Leave a comment
British Diaspora is a National Resource.
Why doesn’t the British government show more interest, compared with other countries such as the US, in retaining links with its citizens moving overseas? One illustration of this is that after 15 years away, British citizens living overseas automatically lose their … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Diaspora is National Resource, EasyExpat Overview, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Low Turnout - Not No Vote, Need to Change Political Attitudes, Neglected overseas voters, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas, Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS, Younger Generation Voters
Leave a comment
Need to Change Political Attitudes to Overseas Voters.
Lord Lipsey in his BBC Radio 4 debate with Brian Cave came across as absolutely rigid in his opposition to UK voting rights for British Citizens resident overseas. This doesn’t seem so surprising now when reading the review of his … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, EasyExpat Overview, Electoral Commission, Lack of Government respect, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Low Turnout - Not No Vote, MPs concerned by nat/Internat. issues, Need to Change Political Attitudes, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas, Re-Connecting with British Voters, Voting Rights
3 Comments
Votes for Expat Brits blog 