Curiouser & curiouser Bumped into Dominic Cummings. Hack: Ready for the campaign Mr Cummings? DC: We’re not going to have one. Hack: Really? DC: They’ll vote for EU citizens and we’ll have to pull it.
Labour MP Kate Hoey - Leave campaigner -, has announced she is standing down at the next election. What great news!
I’m hoping that the majority of the spineless twats we currently have representing the electorate will stand down. It’ll never happen whilst they are on the gravy train of course.
It might seem to you like that, but that’s because you don’t know the facts, Dutch people cannot have dual citizenship, soon as I would apply for a British citizenship I would loose my Dutch one, I really don’t see why someone who lives here in the U.K. enjoys being here, paying into the system just as anyone else, having a family who are all British citizens should have to convert to being British( which seems odd, nothing wrong with being Dutch in my opinion) to be able to vote in a general election, and Brexiteers fear not, there are lots of EU citizens from other countries who also are not very keen on the EU as an institution. So no need to get defensive .
If all this Brexit BS only leads to a full revison of the UK government it will have been worthwhile. Some form of PR, dump the the Lords, end all Lizzie & co interference - t'would be great.
Perhaps Allan can help, just to conferm, no deal is always the default if we don't agree a deal and don't get an extension.
I believe you can go halfway and apply for right of residence or something like that, but what would be the point as it's not citizenship and it costs money - I think that may then allow you to vote if that was your desire
I don’t disagree, and maybe it’s because I haven’t paid much attention over the years, it was more that it suddenly became a big issue and they were insinuating that they wouldn’t agree to an election unless it was changed.
"A provisional list of amendments has been published, having been chosen by the deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle. The first is to change the election date to 9 December - put forward by Labour. The second is a technical amendment that backs up the first. And the final amendment is from the government to change the registration date for voting to the same as the rest of the UK."
Not heard of that but as you say, what’s the point, I think, that anyone living in any country in the world should have voting rights as long as he is respect full and adheres to his/hers new host countries rules, and pays what is due in taxes, no need for conversion and new citizenship, in most cases you will always identify as a person from the country where you where born and raised and what is wrong with that? This doesn’t mean that you can’t be happily live in another country.
I think Alan that the politicians who are making a big issue of it are not actually bringing this up because they feel strongly about it being unjust towards EU citizens, it’s like usual, they moan about it because they think it gets them political gain for their cause, rubbish of course , we can see through that, the current crop of politicians is one of the worse in history, if this was 1619 then all of them would be dealt with in a different manner, lots of pieces of rope would be involved I think.
No deal being the default ? I thought it was in the situation you described, can’t see it happening though.
