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JimDandy

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5. So you are a citizen, your English friend is not a citizen

Reply to pkdu (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 12:29 PM

Sep 2014

and your friend gets to vote by virtue of living there, but you do not? Is it just for this vote of independence, or is that Scotland's law all the time?

Seems like it games the system if the UK has mandated that anyone who is a citizen of the UK can vote in the election if they move to Scotland or work in Scotland, but not if they were born there and currently live outside its borders.

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So Sean Connery will be voting JimDandy Sep 2014 #1

No chance, he lives in The Bahamas Bosonic Sep 2014 #2

That's strange for a country to not JimDandy Sep 2014 #3

I cant , yet was raised there and owned a home there ...but pkdu Sep 2014 #4

So you are a citizen, your English friend is not a citizen JimDandy Sep 2014 #5

We are both citizens of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" pkdu Sep 2014 #7

Can't help but think of this ... Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #6

Ha! I haven't watched that in years. I also thought of this: Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2014 #8