Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them are now dead. Not arrogance. Sorry they are dead, but thankful their votes have been replaced by young remainers, tilting the country’s beliefs in favour of staying in the EU.
This is something which needs to be standardized over the EU. As far as I am aware a person cannot be disenfranchized completely - that is the theory, but the practice is different. Currently British ex pats living abroad lose their voting rights for UK elections after 15 years absence from the country - this would be ok. if they then have full voting rights in their adopted country, but that isn't always the case. In Germany you get full voting rights only if you have German nationality - so a Briton who has been here for over 15 years but hasn't naturalized would have no full voting rights anywhere. So this needs to be standardized internationally - which isn't currently the case because the EU has always refrained from interfering with the internal political arrangements of its member states. This is completely different throughout Europe. I would say that, on principle, there should be no taxation without representation - ie. if you pay taxes you vote, simple as that. However - voting rights without knowledge of the language is problematic. In Belgium nearly all foreigners are naturalized and this is coupled with compulsory voting - which leads to the parties there having to print all their material in several languages.
Not ''one and all'' Yorkie. I hope that all Tories in rural areas suffer from their cars not starting this morning - I am trying to put a jinx on this at this very moment !
I am interested in the politics of all countries Duggie. By your way of thinking only those who live in a country would want to express opinions about the politics there - so SH has no right to say anything about France and none of us can criticize Trump because we don't live in the USA. It also implies that all the Poles and Rumanians living in the UK don't have any interest in Poland or Rumania, and are remote from all developments there - so, if their 'interest' is now in Britain then give them all voting rights and settled residence.
I've already answered that - 'no taxation without representation'. People should be allowed to vote where they pay their taxes - upon proof of the required linguistic knowledge. If you're not prepared to give foreigners the vote for the first 10 years then you shouldn't be taxing them either.
IMO.. A person should have the right to vote where they are resident.. As long as registered by a certain date.
I wouldn't wish things like tonsilitis on anyone SH. I was thinking more about harmless things like a spluttering, and final giving up of enginesMy daughter has been struck down with tonsillitis, she will not be able to go out to vote Conservative.
Do you germanic witches power?
The Valkyries and Rhine maidens over here are working on it. Hope your daughter gets better soon.But simply transfering their rights to another country means international cooperation - the very sort of cooperation which you are destroying with Brexit. Immigrants automatically have a foot in both camps and are influenced by affairs in both their homeland and their adopted countries - particularly when those countries cease to be partners and become competitors, or there is a deterioration of relationships. Imagine the situation for British people living abroad if, suddenly, Britain no longer existed and they had to choose between applying to be English, Welsh or Scottish - all of this happening in the distance without any possible imput from yourself. I had experience of this because I was in Germany throughout the 90s when thousands of Yugoslavs suddenly had to become Croats Serbs or Bosnians (with the respective rights of those 3 new countries). Yugoslavs suddenly became Serbs and their legal status plummeted.
