Proposed Retirement Age.

[Jim Brady]

Keith,if you do not have an address in this country you would not be on the electors roll so you would not get a vote.Anyone liiving in Spain who has kept a house on here and continues to complete the electors roll form would be entitled to vote,
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Keith Tindell]

Hi Jim,
Thats not so i am afraid, if you google voting uk non residents, incredibly you are still entitled to vote in a general election if you have emigrated, or live abroad, but not in local elections. They do have to fill in the electoral register. I find this astounding, that they can help to vote in a government, that brings in various laws that does not affect them!!! regards KT

[John Cassels]

That's correct Keith.

Even if you live abroad you are entitled to vote in UK elections .

[Keith Tindell]

I meant to add to the above, a property or address here, is not a requirement KT

[Jim Brady]

So what we are being told here is that a million ex pats or so could vote for a party in the UK without even living here.How stupid is that !!!!!
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Gulliver]

Brian,I think that many people, like your mate Fred, will say they need the money,but that is usually far from the truth.The truth is more like that they feel lost without working,and are unable to fill their time doing the more 'mundane' but necessary things that most of us do. Either that,or they want to end their time on this mortal coil by 'dying in harness.?' Sounds foolish to me,but not to some.

It is also similar to those men(and women) who feel they must have a spouse,despite going through several previous ones ,having died,or separated or divorced(often messily). Especially men,they seem unable to cope without a woman somehow.

My own sister( 62) is on her sixth husband-I stopped going to the ceremonies after the third,and whenever a relative of her by now extended family is mentioned I often have great difficulty in understanding exactly which nephew,niece or ex-husband is being referred to.
I remember when we were little kids playing in our shed and she said to me "Ooh ,it's alright to play mums and dads-but I'm never going to marry when I grow up",so there!"
Oh ye-e-s!?

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[Gulliver]

Who can vote in UK general elections

You can vote in UK general elections once you are on the electoral register and provided that you are also:
aged 18 or over on polling day
a British citizen, (or a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Irish Republic ) living in the UK)
not legally excluded from voting (for example, if you are in prison)


　
　
Who
can’t vote at a general election
At a general election, the following people can't vote:
anyone under 18 years old
members of the House of Lords
European Union citizens
citizens of any country apart from the Irish Republic and Commonwealth countries
people serving a sentence in prison
anyone found guilty of breaking election law in the last five years
　
My emphasis in red.

Therefore,EU citizens cannot vote at U.K.general elections,neither can Australian or NZ or other Commonwealth countries
unless they are domiciled in U.K., in which case they will also have to be registered in the U.K.electoral register.


Local Elections. Only if you are on the U.K. Electoral Register-which you should not be anyway if you are living in EU or abroad.

It makes sense to me

(From direct.gov.site
HERE)

[Captain Kong]

Last election I went to Vote, I was in a qeue of Asians, the only Englishman in the school hall. In Boltonistan.
I got near the desk and the man in front dressed up in a Taliban outfit, handed in his white voting card,
The lady, an English woman, said to him, "This card has been used for voting. " he fumbled through his various gowns, and produced another one, she checked it on the register, "This one has also been used for voting".
He fumbled again through his various rags and found another one, She checks it "This one is OK , here is a voting slip and vote in the box over there."
I got to her and said "It is like being in Karachi and voting there, as many votes as you want."
She shouted, "Are you Rascist? " I said "YES, when other people have lots of voting cards." She was not amused.
.
So that is why I have a Pakistani born Town Councillor and a Pakistani born Member of Parliament.
IS THIS DEMOCRACY???.
How many block votes go in from the Mosques on the postal vote system?????
.
Brian.

[Keith Tindell]

Hi, I think the definition is * a british citizen* even though domicile in Europe or the Commonwealth Countries, in other words they are retaining their British citizenship, no matter what country they reside in. A Brit living in Europe is not a European citizen. Seems to be very complicated. I can assure you i have a relative living in Oz, dual nationality, no property in UK, who votes in all of our general elections. by post. KT

[John Cassels]

Again quite correct Keith. Although having lived over here for more than 30 years , I have never taken Dutch citizenship
but stayed British.
I vote in all UK elections.