General Election 2015 - POLL

Poll Poll Who are you voting for?

  • BNP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 69 64.5%

  • DUP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Labour

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Other (independent, monster raving loony, free-the-ganja, etc.)

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Respect

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Scottish Socialist Party

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • SDLP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sinn Féin

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • TUSC

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 23 21.5%
  • Total voters
    107
  • Poll closed .
It doesn't matter if you're Tory, Lab, LibDem, UKIP or Green, there a bit of support here for everyone :wink:

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On voting rights... My wife is a Malaysian citizen - still, after nearly 16 years here - and she gets a vote. Just saying. Mind you, she pays her taxes and contribute to the economy, is a recipient of the country's services and is as affected as any of us by government policy.
 
markeg, why are you still paying poll tax... Think you're being screwed mate :wink: :P
 
Bing said:
On voting rights... My wife is a Malaysian citizen - still, after nearly 16 years here - and she gets a vote. Just saying. Mind you, she pays her taxes and contribute to the economy, is a recipient of the country's services and is as affected as any of us by government policy.
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So am I but I have no right to vote ...
 
Just got my postal ballot paper and I see that the Greens don't have anyone standing here. I will have to re-think my vote now
 
What I should have included was that your allowed to vote for the next 15 years before you need to re register. I get people working abroad maybe for a significant period of time but 15 years is far too long. If you still have a property in the UK then you may be retiring at some point but if you have no property, you've up sticks and gone for a new life somewhere else you should not be able to vote after X amount of years probably 5 would be a good number and you most certainly shouldn't be allowed to re register to vote after your time has lapsed if you have not returned to the UK to live.
 
markeg said:
Angie4m said:
Watching the One Show last night and they advised that Ex Pats can also register to vote and that last time something like 35k people (IIRC) did so out of around 5 million. Sorry but if you've decided you wish to live in another sunny part of the world, WHY should you be able to vote on the daily running of a country you no longer contribute to?

Or are the Ex Pats that are voting the ones that still return from abroad to use our services like the NHS
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Ex-pat status isn't as cut and dried as most people think.

I classify as an ex-pat, as I work and am resident in Tokyo. I have a house in UK, pay poll tax in UK, am registered to vote in the UK, and pay taxes in both Japan and UK (my tax liability is split between the two countries). Also, from June I will be returning to work in the UK. So I believe I have earned the right to vote, and the right to choose to do so. I am sure there are a lot of other people like me...
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There is not 5 million Ex Pats like you and I don't believe that the BBC should be promoting to the vast majority of them who will not be like your good self that they can register to vote. If you have a property in the UK or contribute with your taxes or work abroad as part of your job whilst still returning to the UK then yes you should be able to vote and the latter two in my eyes do not make you an ex pat but I know the government etc sees it differently.

Maybe the ex pat figures are completely wrong and maybe the ones who did register and vote last time were actually people like you. That's fine but we don't need auld Peggy who now lives in Benidorm and has done for 12 years having her say on the running of the country she no longer resides in.
 
Angie4m said:
That's fine but we don't need auld Peggy who now lives in Benidorm and has done for 12 years having her say on the running of the country she no longer resides in.
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Oyy!!! Leave auld Peggy out of this......she does a cracking Full English Brekkie in "The Lucky Leprechaun Lounge". :poke: :)
 
I would love to see a Conservative / UKIP coalition. That would make for interesting policies that would probably get quite a bit of support from both parties on most items.
 
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