Votes for life in UK general elections for British expats finally becomes law
NEIL HESKETH / JENNIE RHODES – Originally posted in SUR After a fight over several years, campaigners are celebrating the change which gives UK citizens in Spain more say in decisions ‘back home’ British citizens living in Spain are celebrating...
Votes for Life Update from the British Embassy
The government has announced today that British citizens who have moved abroad will be given ‘votes for life’ as the UK Government scraps the arbitrary 15-year limit on the voting rights. All British citizens who are living overseas who have been previously registered...
Votes for Life – a Bremain Campaign Update May 2021
Bremain in Spain has been campaigning since 2017 for the repeal of the fifteen year rule which has prevented UK citizens living overseas from being able to cast their vote in UK elections. You can read the history of UK overseas voting in the House of Commons Library....
Government pledges £2.5m to provide votes for life for Brits overseas
2019 Conservative manifesto: “We will make it easier for British expats to vote in Parliamentary elections, and get rid of the arbitrary 15-year limit on their voting rights”. Our Chair Sue Wilson writes for Yorkshire Bylines about the upcoming Electoral Reform Bill...JOIN US
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Wha a lame excuse
The usual ' one rule for them' another for us
The EU’s youth mobility proposal
Our leaders may have been too hasty in rejecting the EU’s proposed youth mobility scheme so soon – it offered mobility, not freedom of movement
by @Suewilson91 MBE in @YorksBylines
#YouthMobility
As a journalist, I understand why Liz Truss is getting so many interviews. But there is something deeply jarring about seeing someone with such intellectual deficit, such delusion, such misinformation, being given platform after platform. Might reflect how we got in this mess IDK