Category Archives: Worth of Grey Vote

Major 2015 Election Issues Should Concern British Expats?

The negative reactions on this Survive France Network link, give a good indication of the resistance of some British expatriates at least in France to registering to vote in UK national elections , even though it is now possible to conveniently register on-line … Continue reading

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Why British Expatriates also don’t Vote?

With falling voter turnout such a cause for concern in the UK (only 31% in the 2013 local elections and 65.1% in the 2010 general election, the latter compared with +75% in 1964), why does the political establishment continue to … Continue reading

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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

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