"The (British) Government is committed to scrapping the arbitrary rule that prevents British citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years from participating in UK parliamentary elections, and to making it easier for expats to vote," said Chloe Smith, Minister of State for the Constitution and Devolution, in a letter to Sir Roger Gale, the British MP who has been campaigning for expat voting rights.
British government wants to make it easier for expats to vote
Plans to scrap the 15 year rule voting law
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This is wrong. Votes should be limited to those residing in that country.....
The U.K. allows southern Irish citizens to vote in the elections if they are residents here. So why not expats living elsewhere in non U.K. territory.
So a Conservative government wants to change the rules so that more people who are likely to be well off and thus more likely to vote Conservative can do so? Mmm.