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I still don't understand why UK citizens were forbidden to vote if they lived abroad. My mother and grandparents (anti-brexit) live abroad, were not able to vo
by Faaak 5y ago
I still don't understand why UK citizens were forbidden to vote if they lived abroad.
My mother and grandparents (anti-brexit) live abroad, were not able to vote, and are now living the consequences of it (they only have the UK nationality). It's crazy
- Symbiote 5y agoThe right to vote lasts for 15 years of living abroad, if I recall correctly. I was able to vote.
- toyg 5y agoThe eligibility criteria for this referendum were not linked to general rights to vote for the UK Parliament, there was a separate piece of legislation. You were probably classed as still living in the UK at the time.
- Symbiote 5y agoI am fully aware of where I was legally resident at the time of the referendum. Wikipedia: "The Representation of the People Acts 1983 (1983 c. 2) and 1985 (1985 c. 50), as amended, also permit certain British citizens (but not other British nationals), who had once lived in the United Kingdom, but had since and in the meantime lived outside of the United Kingdom, but for a period of no more than 15 years, to vote"
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- soneil 5y agoSame issue here. Because I'm exercising my freedom of movement, I'm apparently not allowed an opinion on said freedom.