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If you are a Brit living overseas you can vote from overseas. There was a 15 year rule but this was abolished this year.Their site seems a little cagey about actually spelling out whether or not you can or can't vote. I've been out of the UK since the late 90's and never bothered to vote from abroad. I looked at it once, but it seemed like a massive faff to register at the time (I think you had to find another Brit - who isn't family, to vouch for you, which seemed too much for an introvert like me).
My UK passport is long since expired (since I have a US one now) anyway. As much as I'd like to f*** the Tories, it doesn't feel right to vote in an election of a place I haven't lived in for 20+ years.
Thanks, sending to friends in France, 5 more votes for Labour.Don’t miss out!
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Madness.If you are a Brit living overseas you can vote from overseas. There was a 15 year rule but this was abolished this year.
Changes to overseas voting
Find out more about the removal of the 15 year limit on voting rights for British citizens living overseas.www.electoralcommission.org.uk
The online application is simple and took me and the Missus about 2 minutes. No need for others to vouch for you. I just took a look and you can apply without a passport.
Last address.Madness.
What decides the constituency the leavers () can vote for?
Fails now for me when they ask for my NI number. I did have one, at one time, but I obviously have zero idea what it is. You can, apparently, recover it, with a valid passport, which I don't have, since mine expired.If you are a Brit living overseas you can vote from overseas. There was a 15 year rule but this was abolished this year.
Changes to overseas voting
Find out more about the removal of the 15 year limit on voting rights for British citizens living overseas.www.electoralcommission.org.uk
The online application is simple and took me and the Missus about 2 minutes. No need for others to vouch for you. I just took a look and you can apply without a passport.
It was the Tories which brought in the 15 year time limit, and the Tories which then removed it.Interesting the Tories did this, my only guess is they thought somehow they'd secure more votes on the back of it.
5.5m Brits living overseas
I’m similar. Although I pay all my personal tax in Germany I do pay a small amount of business tax in the UK. This will stop shortly as I don’t have any UK clients now.I feel as if I'm in a Catch 22 position - paying taxes in Spain but no vote, and having a vote in the UK but not paying taxes there. I suppose the only justification for me to vote in the UK would be asking my daughter who she wants me to vote for as it's her future.
A pleasure, its good to vote!Thanks @Herr Tubthumper!
It's more than good. It should be compulsory in my opinion (as it is in Belgium and some other places). It's a civic duty. Although all voting forms should have a 'none of the above' option for when all the candidates are shit, which they often are.A pleasure, its good to vote!