It's election day here in Holland.Looks like a straight fight between right wing VVD and left wing PvdA. I'm not allowed to vote even though i've lived and worked here 42 years. Still British you see.My wife and kids can vote though being born here.What i can't understand is the fact that some countries allow you to have 2 passports therefore giving them the right to vote.
Rob wrote:It's election day here in Holland.Looks like a straight fight between right wing VVD and left wing PvdA. I'm not allowed to vote even though i've lived and worked here 42 years. Still British you see.My wife and kids can vote though being born here.What i can't understand is the fact that some countries allow you to have 2 passports therefore giving them the right to vote.
if they give you the vote, what would you want next? to wash your car on your driveway ?
Rob wrote:It's election day here in Holland.Looks like a straight fight between right wing VVD and left wing PvdA. I'm not allowed to vote even though i've lived and worked here 42 years. Still British you see.My wife and kids can vote though being born here.What i can't understand is the fact that some countries allow you to have 2 passports therefore giving them the right to vote.
if they give you the vote, what would you want next? to wash your car on your driveway ?
I am shocked they have allowed him to stay this long!
Looks like some people have been sleeping in the knife drawer!! On a serious note,yes SRD it looks like the extremists in Holland have taken a knock in their efforts.One of their issues was to restrict immigration which strangely enough i'm actually in favour of.And that's got nothing to do with race or religion!!
I'm still British too, I can't vote in General Elections, but I can in local and european elections. It's not so much what passport I have (cause I could have a passport issued by the danish authorities), more a question of nationality! From what they were saying here, it sounds like the right wing lot are losing votes!
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Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
Same situation here, I can only vote in the local elections. I have finally decided to apply of Icelandic citizenship though it remains to be seen if I get my act together and do it! Apart from references, proof that I have taken x-hours of Icelandic lessons, and paid for and taken a test in Icelandic, I also need a certficate from the UK police saying I have no criminal record!!! Considering I left the UK almost 30 years ago I think they could dispense with that one!
"The present is the key to the past" - Charles Lyell
gardener wrote:Same situation here, I can only vote in the local elections. I have finally decided to apply of Icelandic citizenship though it remains to be seen if I get my act together and do it! Apart from references, proof that I have taken x-hours of Icelandic lessons, and paid for and taken a test in Icelandic, I also need a certficate from the UK police saying I have no criminal record!!! Considering I left the UK almost 30 years ago I think they could dispense with that one!
i dont know we hear you dished out a mean punch in the school yard does that count
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gardener wrote:Same situation here, I can only vote in the local elections. I have finally decided to apply of Icelandic citizenship though it remains to be seen if I get my act together and do it! Apart from references, proof that I have taken x-hours of Icelandic lessons, and paid for and taken a test in Icelandic, I also need a certficate from the UK police saying I have no criminal record!!! Considering I left the UK almost 30 years ago I think they could dispense with that one!
i dont know we hear you dished out a mean punch in the school yard does that count
And she told me off when I used to mither her about Genealogy in the early days! Like I would mither anyone!
Still British you see.My wife and kids can vote though being born here.What i can't understand is the fact that some countries allow you to have 2 passports therefore giving them the right to vote. 
