if that is the case that each of the political parties, as i assume is the case for  er the conservative party, i know it to be the case of the labour party i assume the same is true for the liberal democrats and other parties represented in this house, that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before june the ninth, that as a result of the difficulties that i've described as far as the french government attitude towards these elections is concerned, that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we cannot have these new er  boundaries in place.