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Quick extension note: the EU is apparently principled. Election day is election day. You extent up to then or you extend much longer and vote - if this report is to be belived independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
The twittersphere discussed for quite a while whether you could not extend until the MEPs actually take their seat. Leading to an end of June end date. I have referred to this as the “grey area”, a violation of the right to vote, but not really any damange done.
Many journalists reported that the view in Brussels was that such an extension into the grey area was unproblematic. The weight of this reporting was such that this soon became a UK bubble consensus view. By and large.
What is reported now -that Juncker warned against extending to June 30 - makes me think that this bubble view was never really the Brussels view. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
To what extent is the tendency to create a bubble discourse doing real harm to the process?
