Weird. My friend in HK was able to vote. He asked me to be his proxy.
Suffice to say our votes cancelled each other out.
I havent heard anything from our town hall where the application on line was supposed to go. If I dont receive it by Monday I shall not be voting.
Presumably he hadnât been away from Britain for more than 15 years. We had so fell foul of that rule, but it neednât have done because Cameron made a decision and said we wouldnât be able to.
He was so useless that he couldnât even see that the group of people most likely to vote the way he wanted them to, were the people who had fpllowed the European dream and voted with their feet. What an idiot, and what is his reward? 300 quid a day without being elected and thousands to swan about ruining Britainâs reputation abroad. Not for much longer though, apart from the 300 quid though.
I have a postal vote but no proxy so will be posting from France. Does anyone know from experience what the fastest way to get a letter delivered to the UK is ? I wonât be relying on the prepaid envelope as @ChrisMann says, they can just go to the back of the queue.
Me too. A postal vote must be with the councilâs election team by 10am on polling day to be counted.
In my case, postal voting, Iâm waiting for the ballot papers to arrive next week. Thatâll give my ballot 3 weeks and 4 days to arrive in time. Approx 25 days. Time enough?
In my estimate, Iâm allowing 8 days for the ballot papers to arrive here in France.
Why do you think ballot papers will be sent next week? UK govât site states that 16 days beforehand is the earliest they will be sent out.
âIf youâre abroad on election day you need to make arrangements in advance. Apply to vote by proxy if the election or referendum is less than 2 weeks away and you have not made arrangements yet.
Your postal ballot will be sent to the address youâve chosen no earlier than 16 days before the election. You need to return your ballot before 10pm on polling day.â
I didnât know about the 16 days. Maybe I wonât get to vote!
edited - if delivery takes say, 7 days for the ballot to arrive chez moi, and another 7 days to reach the polling station, might just do it, if my maths is right!
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I looked up returning ours by DHL. Standard 2-3 days would cost âŹ79 so thatâs out. 
Some info, possibly
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16 days is better than I had heard â I had understood that it was only 7 days before polling day.
âIf itâs 16 days that invalidates the whole premise of this thread, and I declare it officially closedâŚ!
Iâm keeping my fingers crossed, and hope the ordinary postal services will come to the rescue!
Iâm wondering if Rishi Sunak called a surprise general election knowing that several million reregistered overseas voters will only have 16 days to receive and return their ballots. A bit tight!
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You canât, you forgot the question mark. 
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I expect he called it as the well has run dry. (Or at the least is fatally tainted.)
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Your post is obviously better than ours! We used to be registered for a postal vote, but the ballot papers never arrived in time to send them back.
Well after all the doom and gloom, our ballot papers arrived yesterday morning and mine at least will catch first post tomorrow morning so I reckon 17 days should be sufficient to get it back on time.
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Very glad to hear that my theory has been comprehensively refuted!
Now we have to encourage people to actually registerâŚ
We applied for a postal vote and completed all the requests on the easy to use web site.
Today we received a reply saying that our application has been accepted and our postal voting pack will be sent to us. Unfortunately they said they are sending it to our last known UK address of 20 years ago and not our current French address. Does that mean an unknown person will get the right to cast my vote?
Only if theyâve nicked your i.d. too
ID for a postal vote?