Photo ID required if you want to vote in person

[AuntDaisy]

Or a kind of technological Chinese whispers?

Come to think of it, not unlike the journey of threads on this forum.

... and powered by Artifical Intelligence no less!

Yes, it's fun how threads can diverge. (BTW your beloved Welsh Collie already has a thread, potentially...)

[AuntDaisy]

According to the whiskypedia article the black dog is a Scottie and the white a Westie.

The whisky was actually named Black and White by patrons of the House of Commons bar after the colour of the label. The dogs were added as an afterthought.

Thanks for the info. / correction, Old Grumpy.

[Dave2002]

... and powered by Artifical Intelligence no less!

Yes, it's fun how threads can diverge. (BTW your beloved Welsh Collie already has a thread, potentially...)

Whilst discussing thread diversion, someone pointed out to me today that for the very first time in my life I actually voted for the winning MP. First time in over 50 years!

[french frank]

Whilst discussing thread diversion, someone pointed out to me today that for the very first time in my life I actually voted for the winning MP. First time in over 50 years!

Everyone loves to back the winner!

[LMcD]

Whilst discussing thread diversion, someone pointed out to me today that for the very first time in my life I actually voted for the winning MP. First time in over 50 years!

Same here!

[oliver sudden]

Same here!

Same here! Although it was also the first time in my life I was able to vote at a general election.

(Born near Felixstowe to Australian parents who brought me home that same year, never bothered to take Australian citizenship when I lived there, lived in Germany since 2002, could only take citizenship there if I gave up my Australian citizenship (which I took by descent in 2009) and since Brexit my UK citizenship as well. Neither of those are a realistic option: I still have family in Oz (I was only able to see my father before he died because of the Oz citizenship) and until a couple of years ago I was finishing my PhD at a UK university. The law has recently changed in Germany to allow multiple citizenship as a matter of course but lots of people are applying and the backlog seems likely to last a year or so. But the UK law changed just in time for this election to allow citizens a vote regardless of their length of absence.)

[Serial_Apologist]

Same here! Although it was also the first time in my life I was able to vote at a general election.

(Born near Felixstowe to Australian parents who brought me home that same year, never bothered to take Australian citizenship when I lived there, lived in Germany since 2002, could only take citizenship there if I gave up my Australian citizenship (which I took by descent in 2009) and since Brexit my UK citizenship as well. Neither of those are a realistic option: I still have family in Oz (I was only able to see my father before he died because of the Oz citizenship) and until a couple of years ago I was finishing my PhD at a UK university. The law has recently changed in Germany to allow multiple citizenship as a matter of course but lots of people are applying and the backlog seems likely to last a year or so. But the UK law changed just in time for this election to allow citizens a vote regardless of their length of absence.)

I appreciate and understand your situation. What did annoy me were the voting rights given to ex-pats given that they are no more going either to benefit or disbenefit from not having to live under the consequences of their choice. I feel exactly the same regarding those of naturalised UK citizens vis-a-vis elections in their countries of birth.

[gurnemanz]

My wife was born in Leipzig, DDR, and became a British citizen when she married me. We have lived in England since 1976. She was never a citizen of the Bundesrepublik and had no reason to become one ... until Brexit, that is, when she immediately applied for it. Despite never having lived in Germany our two children have always thought that being half German was part of their identity and also applied. They all now have dual citizenship. I have no German blood and am obviously not eligible, so I am now the only non-European in our family.

[Sir Velo]

so I am now the only non-European in our family.

The Swiss and Norwegians inter alios might be surprised to learn that they aren't Europeans!

[oliver sudden]

I appreciate and understand your situation. What did annoy me were the voting rights given to ex-pats given that they are no more going either to benefit or disbenefit from not having to live under the consequences of their choice. I feel exactly the same regarding those of naturalised UK citizens vis-a-vis elections in their countries of birth.

It is certainly ironic that the new rule comes less than a decade after a referendum fundamentally affecting the lives of British citizens living in the non-UK EU, in which lots of the said citizens did not have the chance to vote. (Perhaps the Brexit referendum situation helped bring about the law change?)

I certainly have no qualms about making use of this opportunity in my own situation.