Removal of the 15
limit on
Registering to vote for British Elections.
It is important that you take action
– see below
Geoffrey
Clifton-Brown, MP for The Cotswolds is tabling a
10-minute Bill with
the above objective on Tuesday December 2nd 2.45 p.m. House of Commons.
He will be supported by Sir Roger Gale and others.
In
advance, on December 1st (room W1 House of Commons)
there will be a
press conference attended by Harry Shindler MBE, who expects
to speak.
The
House is normally fairly well attended on a Tuesday but we
must try to assure
that as many MPs are there as possible.
It
would be a highly significant milestone if this presentation
were to result in
a change of law but it is also a necessary step in
testing the opinion
of MPs from all the major parties.
The 15 limit on voting for expatriates is a huge deterrent to registering to vote.The fact that very few expats register to vote is a huge deterrent to politicians to pass a bill removing the limit -
A classic chicken and egg situation.
Yet
it costs nothing in labour, commitment, money to remove it –
why is it not
done?
TAKE
ACTION please to ensure a good attendance of MPs.
1. Select
email addresses of your ex-constituency MP from here
http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
2. Send
this message to him/her/them.
Encourage Overseas Voting On Tuesday December 2nd Geoffrey
Clifton-Brown, MP
for The Cotswolds is tabling a 10-minute Bill with the
above objective on at 2.30 p.m. House of Commons. He will be supported
by Sir Roger Gale and
others.
Please attend the House and support the
removal of the 15 year
limit on voting by British Citizens Abroad.
This limit is a massive deterrent to
registration to vote.
The removal will send a message of goodwill
to the citizens
abroad from the British Parliament – and reassure the
citizens abroad that they
are valued.
Take action 2.
Persuade
Friends and Relatives in the UK
to send this to their
MPs.
The
ten-minute
rule Bills are one of the ways in which backbench MPs (private
Members) can
introduce legislation. However, the process is used more as a
means of making a
point on the need to change the law on a particular subject as
there is little
parliamentary time available. They mainly provide the
opportunity for MPs
to test Parliament's opinion on a particular subject.
The
ten minute
rule allows a brief introductory speech of no more than ten
minutes and one of
the same length opposing the motion to be made in the House of
Commons after
question time on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when the House is
likely to be full.
Not all Ten Minute Rule Bills are printed.
To
register to
vote go to.. https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
