Submitted on Tuesday 28th June 2016
Rejected on Monday 4th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Give all British citizens a vote for life including for the EU referendum
On behalf of all expats living abroad for many years, we call upon HM Government to stand by their electoral promise to fulfill "a vote for life" for all British citizens no matter how long they have not lived in the UK and we all should have had the democratic right to vote in the EU referendum.
About 2.2 million expats have lived abroad for 15+ years. We have various commitments that mean we do not reside in the UK. However, we are still proud to be British and are therefore dismayed that we were unable to vote in the EU Referendum. We believe that democracy has not occurred until each and every British citizen holding a British passport has had their right to vote on such a fundamental issue. Then and only then can HM Government claim that all British people have had their say.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government has said that it does have plans to change this rule. It's therefore not clear what action you would like the Government to take that is different from what it is already doing.
You can find more information in the Government's response to this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112142
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