Posted on 05/25/2015 5:33:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
More than 1 million foreigners living in Britain will be banned from voting in the EU referendum, the Conservatives have announced, in a significant boost to Eurosceptic campaigners.
David Cameron believes that the British people must decide the future of the nation's membership of the European Union in the first referendum for more than 40 years.
The EU referendum bill, which will be announced this week after the Queen's Speech, will make clear that only British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens who are resident in the UK will be allowed to vote.
It comes after Eurosceptic MPs confronted ministers over the issue amid concerns that pro-Europeans could effectively rig the result by giving EU citizens the decisive vote.
Mr Cameron will on Monday step up his campaign to win back more powers from Brussels by hosting Jean Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, at his Chequers country residence for dinner.
Mr Juncker is reportedly planning push the Prime Minister to hold the referendum in 2016 or "as soon as possible" despite concerns that this will not give Britain time to secure reforms.
Mr Cameron has said he is committed to holding a referendum by 2017 at the latest, but has suggested he is prepared to hold one sooner if negotiations with Brussels prove successful.
The Prime Minister will set out his plans to bar foreign jobseekers claiming benefits and deport them from the UK if they do not find work within six months, which he has described as an "absolute requirement".
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Aww. Imagine if non-German citizens, but EU citizens, went to Germany to vote on a referendum to have Germany leave the EU? or similar situation in any country where the elites are strongly pro-EU?
Next on my agenda of logic, no Democrats voting in Republican primaries.
The fact that either subject is even discussed tells me how far down the path to the tar pits we have gone.
yeah. Was this supposed to spark outrage in someone?
Wow - What a radical concept! Only actual citizens being allowed to vote - maybe that idea will catch on here.
Ummm....shouldn’t that be, like, Rule #1?
Haley Barbour would disagree.
Thad Cochran is vital to the integrity of the Senate...
The foreign vote would be heavily in favor of remaining in the EU, so this is positive step, but polls show a consistent majority of support (see the table in the original). Regardless, any snarkiness about this is, well, stupid.
I dream of the day when only CITIZENS would be allowed to vote in the US...
We think alike.
You don’t even have the constitutional right to vote!. Shocking.
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