§ Mr. Russell Johnston (Inverness)I wish to present to the House a petition that I have received which is signed by 521 British citizens presently resident in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The petition is brief and self-explanatory, and with your permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall read the substantive part of it. It
Showeth that at least 300,000 British citizens resident in the other member states of the European Community were unable to vote in the 1979 elections to the European Parliament owing to the refusal of the British Government and Parliament to grant them the right to vote, and that this right has to this day not been granted.Wherefore your Petitioners pray that legislation be introduced to enable British citizens resident in other member states of the European Community to vote in the United Kingdom in the 1984 elections to the European Parliament.And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.
§ To lie upon the Table.