Comments on: Who may vote in an EU constitution referendum? http://www.martinstabe.com/2005/01/14/who-may-vote-in-an-eu-constitution-referendum/ A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:09:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ken http://www.martinstabe.com/2005/01/14/who-may-vote-in-an-eu-constitution-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Ken Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://martinstabe.com/blog2/?p=378#comment-15 How on earth can we argue it both ways, it is wrong for the British living in Spain not to be allowed the and wrong for any other than the British to vote in Britain? As it is up to each country individually to agree the EU constitution because it affects their countries constitution, it cannot be right for foreign nationals to vote. Although we are all EU citizens this is not an EU wide referendum, if it were it would not matter which country the citizens voted in. How on earth can we argue it both ways, it is wrong for the British living in Spain not to be allowed the and wrong for any other than the British to vote in Britain?

As it is up to each country individually to agree the EU constitution because it affects their countries constitution, it cannot be right for foreign nationals to vote. Although we are all EU citizens this is not an EU wide referendum, if it were it would not matter which country the citizens voted in.

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