No vote, no voice: EU migrants and the general election

The chance has passed to register to vote. Some people will be gutted to have missed it. Some will not have bothered. Some might choose Russell Brand’s decision not to vote to raise their voice. And some people who are bothered will be left with no choice - and no voice.

By Laura Varriale

(Photo By Migrants not welcome. Photo:Getty)

“None of us likes to be told we can’t do something,” says the voice-over in the Register-to-Vote TV ad in the commercial break during the Leaders’ Debate on ITV before the Easter weekend.

In the 30-second-long ad, people are prevented from taking a staircase, putting ketchup on their fry-up or entering a park.