Guest 1585- Registered: 15 Oct 2015
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#1
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/109868
Should immigrants be allowed to vote in the EU referendum, would that not be a fix of the vote as they will all vote to stay in?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
I don't think that most will necessarily vote to remain in the EU, commonwealth immigrants were against the free movement bringing in people from Eastern Europe. Then with supreme irony many Poles were complaining that if Romanians came in they would undercut them on wages.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#3
Immigrants who are now UK citizens-yes.
Non-UK citizens: no.
Simples.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
If the rules are the same as for General Elections then expatriates will have a vote.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#5
Which is wrong unless they are working abroad on a temporary basis or just visiting, those who have left for 'the good life' should not have a vote in any UK election.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
How do they allocate votes cast by people resident overseas? I can only think that it would be in the constituency where they were last on the electoral register.
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
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#7
They apply to the last Council where they were registered Howard. I thought it odd that non-UK citizens could vote in the Scottish referendum.