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    #11
    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Does that mean I can register to vote in Scotland ?

    I might vote SNP....

    (if you can't beat them)
    That's rather amusing, someone in Germany can vote SNP but someone in England cannot.

    Next you'll be complaining about your offspring paying Scottish university tuition fees whilst mine return from the fatherland with nothing to pay.

    Got to love democracy.
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #12
      Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
      Vote SNP you'll get Tory anyway.
      Vote SNP, get SNP.

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        #13
        Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
        So because I've been living in the EU, I'm a EU citizen without the ability to vote until now. It's not something you'll be aware of until you move out of the country.

        It's amazing how many people living in the EU don't have a right to vote.
        As an EU citizen, you have the right to vote in local elections and European elections (on the latter you may even choose if you want to vote for a representative of your host country or of you country of citizenship)
        It is annoying though not to be able to vote for national elections, especially when you're a higher rate taxpayer and more intelligent than most of the locals.

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          #14
          Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
          As an EU citizen, you have the right to vote in local elections and European elections (on the latter you may even choose if you want to vote for a representative of your host country or of you country of citizenship)
          It is annoying though not to be able to vote for national elections, especially when you're a higher rate taxpayer and more intelligent than most of the locals.
          When you get done for a crime and have a jury trial you are judged by your peers. If the peers who are selected to judge you are as thick as tulip then tough.

          It's the same in elections - people may be thick as tulip but the criteria for voting is nothing to do with how intelligent you are or how much money you pay in. In fact the people who actually bother to read the stuff the candidates put out tend not to vote as they realise they won't any of them to represent them.
          "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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            #15
            Being Thick is not a lifestyle choice. So less of the insults please
            Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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              #16
              Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
              That's rather amusing, someone in Germany can vote SNP but someone in England cannot.
              That's cos you are a f**kwit.

              You vote to select the candidate in the constituency you live in or have lived in.

              I've never settled in Scotland, Wales or NI so won't ever be able to vote for SNP, Plaid Cymru or Sinn Féin.
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #17
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                That's cos you are a f**kwit.

                You vote to select the candidate in the constituency you live in or have lived in.

                I've never settled in Scotland, Wales or NI so won't ever be able to vote for SNP, Plaid Cymru or Sinn Féin.
                But why would I want to vote in a country I do not live in? Well its a laugh isn't it..
                "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
                  People in prison don't get to vote
                  Never understood that.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                    But why would I want to vote in a country I do not live in? Well its a laugh isn't it..
                    Why not?

                    Lots of people who live in the country can't be bothered to vote so it may be extended to those who use to live here and may do again as least if they register they may actually do so.

                    When the French elections were on there was campaigning in London for a couple of the candidates.
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View Post
                      Never understood that.
                      obvious reason is that they could band together and elect or cultivate a sympathetic MP.

                      They lost their freedom and right to live freely in society, why should they be allowed to vote?

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