Whether it’s in or out, vote – even if you’re from New Zealand | Timothy Garton Ash

Brexiters are strangely silent about voter registration. Are they afraid of democracy?

New Zealanders, Australians and Canadians may decide whether Britain remains in the EU. One of the wildest oddities of Britain’s electoral system is that a million or more Commonwealth and Irish citizens living in the UK can vote in the referendum, while French and Italian people who have lived here for 30 years cannot. This makes no sense, but then, as Benjamin Disraeli observed, England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

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