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Euro-Scepticism and Aversion to Universal Benefits
The article below by Peter Hoskin links Work & Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith’s attack on Winter Fuel Allowance (WFA) payments for British expat pensioners, to his known euro-scepticism and aversion to universal benefits: “Now, it’s not just a matter of … Continue reading
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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Overseas Voters can currently be Ignored?
A sense of injustice can raise the temperature in the British expatriate community in France as “Readers reply on winter fuel row” in The Connexion, France’s English-Language Newspaper! In determining that British expatriate pensioners resident within averagely “warmer” (than the … Continue reading
Global Citizens
A comment received from Nicholas Kent Newman in response to the previous post on the “Neglect or Apathy of British Citizens Living Abroad” drew attention to the “I’m all right Jack, pull up the ladder” attitude “which will last until for … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Diaspora is National Resource, Electoral Commission, Exporting for Britain, Global Citizens, Low Turnouts: both UK & US, Need to Change Political Attitudes, Neglect or Apathy, Older Generation More Impacted
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Low Turnout Should Not Mean No Vote!
Why at a time of increasing disengagement from the political process in a democratic society, are British citizens in general not more actively encouraged, or indeed inspired in the case of the younger generation, to vote? In the case of … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Democracy in Terminal Decline, Electoral Commission, Improving Overseas Reg/voting Rates, Lord Lexden Continues Challenge, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Low Turnout - Not No Vote, MPs Letter to Constituent, Older Generation More Impacted, Outdated Objections to Voters Overseas, Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS, Two Overseas Voting Issues for Lords, Voting Rights, Younger Generation Voters
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IER for Overseas Voters
One reason why registration rates for overseas voters are so low is illustrated by research below into Individual Electoral Registration (IER). A change to IER from their former and compulsary Householder Electoral Registration (HER), is already required of British citizens moving abroad to … Continue reading
Posted in Electoral Commission, Expat Voter Registration, Global British Representation, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, IER for Overseas Voters., Lack of Government respect, Older Generation More Impacted, Representation encourages overseas voters, UK vs French Parliament 2012, Voting Rights, Younger Generation Voters
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Older Voters More Impacted by 15-Year-Limit on their Voting Rights
British political parties usually take good care of the older generation with 94% of those aged 65 or more registered to vote, compared e.g. with only 56% of 19-24 year olds, hence the recent furore over the “Granny tax” in … Continue reading
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