Emergency legislation to cancel elections would look.. poorer than losing a court case. We are still not told the legal principle on which it may have been illegal. Legislation seems to give the SOS … (View Post)

Unfortunately we may never know, as legal advice is (for some reason I've never understood) privileged. As voters and taxpayers I think it is reasonable to be told in what way a government minis… (View Post)

Presumably the Electoral Commission needs to pull its finger out. Although I would imagine Lowe spoke to them ask asked how far before the nomination deadline he needed to make the application. (View Post)

What we are not told, is why is it not legal. What is the legal principle it failed on? What was the legal advice? Were previous postponements of elections not legal either, and just not challenged, … (View Post)

Why isn't it a shadow cabinet? Is that something only the official opposition is allowed to have? In which case it's something of a technicality. (View Post)