Tag: Belongership

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Falklands startled at Westminster paper proposing UK citizens right to vote in Overseas Territories

  

  “Belongership” and its equivalents are wrong,” it is emphatically stated in a startling paper from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. The paper says the belongership status (known as Falklands Status in the Falklands) as enshrined in the constitutions of a number of British Overseas Territories, including the Falklands, denies legally-resident British Overseas Territory and UK citizens the right to vote and to hold elected office.