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    Default Should you prove you are British to vote

    Should you have to prove that you are born in this country and bring Photo I.D, Passport and/or a birth certificate with your electoral card in order to vote?

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    You should have to, but did you knwo that Commonwealth citizens can also vote? Students and the like, Aussies, Africans etc. as well as immigrants from across the Commonwelath?

    Youd think the Tories woudl do away with this disgusting infringement of our democracy wouldnt you? Why should someone who is here just for a few years (at least theoretically) isnt even one of our own citizens be able to influence who rules us? Given the scale of immigration no doubt Milliband will win next time, and the time after, indeed for evermore, and Cameron doesnt seem to mind.
    27,000,000 Romanians and Bulgarians+ 4,000,000 Moldovans gain the right to work here in
    January 2014! Stop them now:http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492
    Stop 4.3 m Croatians http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/47078

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    Quote Originally Posted by longbow64 View Post
    Should you have to prove that you are born in this country and bring Photo I.D, Passport and/or a birth certificate with your electoral card in order to vote?
    Yes definitely. No foreigners or immigrants should be allowed to vote unless they have been here for at least five years and passed a written test on democracy and our electoral system.
    This is England and .....

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    Couldn't agree more....

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    How about excluding people that don't pay income tax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CB100 View Post
    How about excluding people that don't pay income tax.
    That was one of the points of the poll-tax....

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    Yes, a pity it didn't continue.

    Quote Originally Posted by alycidond9009 View Post
    That was one of the points of the poll-tax....

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    Quote Originally Posted by CB100 View Post
    Yes, a pity it didn't continue.
    You do realise it was the left who would be efected don't You?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alycidond9009 View Post
    That was one of the points of the poll-tax....
    The effect of the poll tax was that if you were on the electoral roll you would have to be 18 and therefore liable to pay the community charge. It wasn't a tax on voting, but it certainly thinned the numbers out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aardvark View Post
    The effect of the poll tax was that if you were on the electoral roll you would have to be 18 and therefore liable to pay the community charge. It wasn't a tax on voting, but it certainly thinned the numbers out.
    That's why many decided it was better not to be on the roll, and thus not have to pay the Tax.
    Mainly the poor, who at the time suported the Labour Party, whereas now, it is somewhat different.

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