should you be able to vote in UK elections

Peaches  ===   Irish ,  that is people from Eire with an Irish passport and citzenship and who live and work in the UK are entitle to the same voting rights as English, Welsh and Scots.
The have 100% equality in all things..

Well slap my hand!  My hubby has just checked out the government website and you were right!!!  I stand corrected!

Hey Peaches,  no sweat.  It was part of the agreement when Ireland was split back in 1920 ?  The reason I know of this little law is by drinking in Irish pubs in London and the fact that my wife's 1st husband was Irish.
So if you slap your hand, just do it metaphoricaly.
In the meantime, welcome to Crazy Island

To me, it only makes sense that a person should be a citizen to vote. I wouldn't want non-citizens voting in the US. Here in Sweden we residents are allowed to vote in the local elections, just not the national ones.

Glenda Jackson for Chancellor!

Here in Sweden we residents are allowed to vote in the local elections, just not the national ones.

I believe there may be some places in the USA that do the same.  Takoma Park, Maryland, a "Bierkenstock suburb" of Washington, D.C., was toying with the idea of non-citizens being allowed to vote on local issues when I moved away in 1991.

If the world is really getting smaller, if we're just a "Global Village" then what better way for everyone to be represented than to have free elections? Ok, to be honest, I'm not sure if I even agree with  that, but it is evocative, I think. If anyone could vote anywhere wouldn't resources, power, etc even out? I understand that's an extremely Utopian view, but an interesting concept.

Michelle

Chelle,  you are utopian, but right.  A Chinese friend of mine, who just manages to stay out of jail for speaking his mind, says that the true test of human rights is when there are no passports and anyone can live anywhere.  That would force governments to court us, we the people.