So, what on earth is happening here?
We had that great kerfuffle of a last minute extension to the Article 50 process overnight of Wednesday the 10th to Thursday the 11th of April.
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So, what on earth is happening here?
We had that great kerfuffle of a last minute extension to the Article 50 process overnight of Wednesday the 10th to Thursday the 11th of April.
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No one knew, we were told, until the last second if we would even be getting an extension or not let alone for how long that extension would be.
Just two days ago on Thursday we woke to the news that our UK and EU politicians had been toiling into the night to agree to what they called a compromise deal of an extension to the 31st of October.
A Statutory Instrument was hurried out later that day at 3:15 pm to order the change of Exit Day in the Withdrawal Act 2018 to 11 pm on the 31st of October 2019.
And we were told we must now hold EU elections. Shock and horror all round. And cries from our politicians of 'we don't want to hold EU elections but ....' etc.
But, my dear viewers, the order for the UK to hold those EU MEP elections had already been made three days prior.
On Monday the 8th of April, David Lidington signed off the Statutory Instrument (or SI) number 832 of 2019.
This SI number 832 of 2019 was made at 11.01 am on Monday the 8th of April and then laid before parliament at 4.15 pm the same day.
The SI came into force on Wednesday the 10th April.
So the whole of Parliament, the civil service, the Electoral Commission and presumably all local councils who run these elections as well as the mainstream press who have thousands of people trawling for this type of information, were all well aware on Monday the 8th of April that EU elections were coming and tha..
