West Brit In Oxford writes:
Could you please inform/remind your readers who are Irish citizens and have moved to the UK that they in fact have full voting rights in the UK, including in the upcoming general election (presuming they have a National Insurance number). I know it surprised me when I arrived on Blighty’s shores to learn as much after mere weeks of residency here. The deadline for registration is 20 April. The registration process is idiot-proof so you’ll be propping up the bourgeois state in no time.
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Really? Let’s all move to north/west Belfast, south east-Belfast, east Derry, north Down and Antrim for the next few weeks and we can obliterate the gay-bashing, anti-abortion, creationist, no-games-on-Sunday troglodyte so-called unionists and remove the border by the June bank holiday. A nation once again!
And swing by Sainsburys while we’re at it
Yup. Count me in.
waitrose darling
No, Waitrose not in the six counties yet. There remains hope they’ll open a store in Belfast but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one. Sainsburys though, same prices as Tesco but better quality food.
Any Mexican specials though?
That’s East LUNNNDUNNNN!derry to you Soundings, ye wee peripatetic strategic voting foreigner ye!
What are ye talking about, sounds like Lundyderry to me ye Cochlea Cola ye? Is that where the Lundies live?
BTW, meant east Belfast above, west Belfast is already covered.
Blighty? Why..
same as UK citizens living here by the way, all but constitutional referendums
Always applied in the part of here that’s in the UK, the north east corner.
That’s not here, that’s up there.
Pedey, clearly you’re not from Donegal (also one of the nine counties of Ulster along with Cavan and Monaghan) or you’d be saying “across there”.
That’s fair. Shall we just say top right?
I dont think the brits ever thought that Irelands independance would ever work out, probably suspected that we would be unable to rule ourselves. They were almost right, we nearly lost it all on 08 , so they might not have excluded us from their electorial stuff.
cynics wha ?
I think it’s a really nice touch, how we’re not legally ‘foreigner’s but not quite Brits either when we’re over here and vice versa.
My flatmate’s in the height of it though, Dutch national living in England for 6 years, I’m here 1 year and I got my poll card yesterday, she was raging!
Hehe!
Unlike here the Netherlands were never part of the UK and no part of the Netherlands is currently part of the UK. Given that the whole of this country was part of the UK for a long time and a chunk of Ireland still is, it’s only reasonable of them to grant Irish citizens special status, which I thinks is reciprocated (correct me if I’m wrong).
Thy will be done
Equally all “Brit” ex pats living in Ireland can also cast a postal vote in the UK general election, but now must use their vote within 15 years of leaving the UK or loose their vote, this has recently been reduced from 20 years