I'm not sure you needed the "I'll repeat myself" bit - I was only asking!!!Yambo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:06 pm
I'll repeat myself, voting is not compulsory and I may vote in the future or I may not depending on personalities, party manifestos or whatever. What I shouldn't do though is be disenfranchised because of where I currently choose to live by the very people who I may well have voted for in the past.
There's a principle involved here. I am still a UK tax payer, and if they still want my money I should be able to have my say, the same as everyone else, about who spends it. I certainly did vote for Brexit (and I voted against staying in the Common Market or whatever it was called back in 1975) and living neither in the UK or the EU had nothing to do with it. I voted to leave because I though it was the best thing for Britain.
I'm English/British and I have had the right to vote in UK elections and referenda since 1969. I shouldn't lose it because a governing body decided that living abroad for 15 years meant I shouldn't or wouldn't be interested. They were wrong. Getting rid of that 15 year rule is the right thing to do (maybe especially for the party that scrapped it).
I didn't realise you were still a taxpayer in the UK - that makes it more sensible to want to vote.
I'm not a taxpayer in the UK and no longer want to live there/have no plans or wishes to return, so zero intention to vote. It is no longer 'my' country, so I don't see that I should have a say in the politics. Because you have moved away I wondered why you still wanted to vote there, but the tax thing and that you still have that affinity to the UK as 'your country' makes sense on that score
Now back to decorating... 
Must try harder to integrate and talk to more people!!
