LONDON (AFP) — Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday urged European and Commonwealth citizens living in Britain to vote during next month's European Parliament elections.
Citizens of European Union and Commonwealth countries legally resident in Britain are entitled to cast a ballot in the June 4-7 polls.
Miliband's Labour Party estimates there are around 500,000 Europeans eligible to vote in the United Kingdom.
"You have every right to vote in Britain if you're from a Commonwealth or European country," he said before an international audience in London.
"We have to explain that to people because I think the exercise of democratic rights is a very important thing."
He predicted the economy and climate change would be among the big issues, and highlighted the need for a high turnout to prevent victories by the far-right British National Party.
Miliband was addressing a meeting organised by Labour with others from the Party of European Socialists caucus in the European Parliament. continues here
They’ll do anything won’t they, anything at all to keep their noses in the trough, whether its smear stories of such incredible stupidity such as this or alien elements thwarting democracy(sic) they’ll do it all. They’ll go to the poles, “excuse the pun”, as they did here or rouse any and all as the above article makes clear, of course its not for democracy the supposed system of government they claim to represent, it is purely to, as the above article notes, “to prevent victories by the far-right British National Party”, there then is your democracy, your system of government ,exposed in a single sentence, vote for your children in June, vote right because it is right.
Citizens of European Union and Commonwealth countries legally resident in Britain are entitled to cast a ballot in the June 4-7 polls.
Miliband's Labour Party estimates there are around 500,000 Europeans eligible to vote in the United Kingdom.
"You have every right to vote in Britain if you're from a Commonwealth or European country," he said before an international audience in London.
"We have to explain that to people because I think the exercise of democratic rights is a very important thing."
He predicted the economy and climate change would be among the big issues, and highlighted the need for a high turnout to prevent victories by the far-right British National Party.
Miliband was addressing a meeting organised by Labour with others from the Party of European Socialists caucus in the European Parliament. continues here
They’ll do anything won’t they, anything at all to keep their noses in the trough, whether its smear stories of such incredible stupidity such as this or alien elements thwarting democracy(sic) they’ll do it all. They’ll go to the poles, “excuse the pun”, as they did here or rouse any and all as the above article makes clear, of course its not for democracy the supposed system of government they claim to represent, it is purely to, as the above article notes, “to prevent victories by the far-right British National Party”, there then is your democracy, your system of government ,exposed in a single sentence, vote for your children in June, vote right because it is right.
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