{"id":408,"date":"2005-04-07T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/general-election-to-be-delayed\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T17:05:00","slug":"general-election-to-be-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/general-election-to-be-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"General Election to be delayed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/returningofficers.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/thats-it-then.html\">The Returning Officers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honourablefiend.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/in_case_you_wer.html\">The Honourable Fiend<\/a> comes news that Birmingham council Liberal Democrats leader John Hemming wants a judicial review of electoral procedures following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalelection05.com\/blog\/?p=5\">the Birmingham vote rigging scandal<\/a>. This could potentially <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/politics.cfm?id=368802005\">delay the general election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/vote_2005\/frontpage\/4420295.stm\">Hemming says<\/a>: &#8220;What I&#8217;m asking for is for small changes to the law of procedure for elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to defer the General Election but if the judge determined it was unlawful and ordered the Prime Minister to change the law and he didn&#8217;t and that started bouncing around &#8230; there are a lot of interesting constitutional implications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it is declared unlawful, the question is &#8216;what happens?&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>(Also posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalelection05.com\/blog\/\">General Election Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Returning Officers and The Honourable Fiend comes news that Birmingham council Liberal Democrats leader John Hemming wants a judicial review of electoral procedures following the Birmingham vote rigging scandal. This could potentially delay the general election. Hemming says: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/general-election-to-be-delayed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}