it's wrong, mr deputy speaker, if they're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last october they'll have a vote  so will any everybody else who's a citizen of the european union, so will peers of the realm who happen to be living  elsewhere whether they're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations, have a vote in the european elections and i think it's wholly wrong that erm  citizens of other european countries  namely france because that's the one and it's  remarkable is it not that france is the one that's gonna be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we don't submit to their extra demands but citizens of france  who are citizens living in their colonies, as i've said in south america, the west indies and the pacific, will have a vote in the european elections on june the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house, we cannot shirk it onto anyone else, we deny them the responsibility and i think it's about time the house addressed this matter.