Monday 25 May 2015

Tories announce people not eligible to vote in EU referendum won't be eligible to vote in EU referendum

The Tories are madly spinning that Dave has put his foot down and shown he's serious about an EU referendum by announcing that only people eligible to vote in parliamentary elections will be allowed to vote in it.

This is a propaganda at its finest because there was no suggestion that citizens of other EU countries would be allowed to vote in the referendum prior to this announcement. In fact, it's a reasonable expectation that only people who are eligible to vote in national elections would be allowed to vote in a national referendum. In one press release the Tories have both created and fixed a problem that didn't exist until it was written!