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You should lose voting rights 12 months after you leave, which is when tax and residency starts being considered as "not" - I've said this before Brexit too,if

• PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  That's a ridiculously short time. If someone takes a position in another part of the world (perhaps behind the wheel of a large automobile), for a year or two, they could trivially find themselves coming back to a government they were unable to vote for, which will govern their lives for up to 4-5 years. I'm not advocating for the rights of expats to be expanded, and I'd probably support some of them being shrunk somewhat, as a general rule. I just think that a once-in-several-generational essentially constitutional vote is different, and that the normal rules (which I support) should be modified for such a thing.
  • throwaway67743 4y ago
    There is a difference between being out of the country and making a choice to not be part of it, obviously it requires some degree of flexibility but you shouldn't be able to abandon the country and then expect benefits or any say in how it's run, same applies to any country. The easy other point is people who haven't even stepped foot in the country in decades are dictating to people who still live there and drawing money away despite contributing very little when they did live there and absolutely nothing for the past 20 years in their hovel in Spain or whatever the current sufferer of British expats is.