Clause 6 — Decisions requiring approval by Act and by referendum

Part of Firearms (Amendment) Bill – in the House of Commons at 4:00 pm on 25 January 2011.

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Photo of David Nuttall David Nuttall Conservative, Bury North 4:00, 25 January 2011

I believe it should be up to the Spanish to decide who should vote in Spanish elections, not the EU, just as I do not want the EU telling our country whether citizens of another EU country should have the right to vote in our national elections.

I might be reading too much into this, but I wonder whether the reason the current article refers only to European parliamentary elections and local elections is that people in the world of the EU would like national elections done away with. In their world, there would be only regions within the great European Union. Is that why no mention of national elections was made in that article?