{"id":1097,"date":"2010-05-07T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:22:33","slug":"the-people-have-spoken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/1097","title":{"rendered":"The People have Spoken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone hear what they said?<\/p>\n<p>It is clear to me what they said and it is exactly the same as they have said since I was first able to vote back in the 70s&mdash;<strong>the electoral system in this country is broken<\/strong>. Just look at the figures. At the time of writing (08:45) the results are CON 36%, LAB 29%,  LIB 23%, other 12% and the prediction is not a lot different. That says we don&#8217;t want a block-busting majority. We are fortunate that for the first time for ages, the seat count says something similar, though in very different proportions. So let&#8217;s listen to the people and do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone hear what they said? It is clear to me what they said and it is exactly the same as they have said since I was first able to vote back in the 70s&mdash;the electoral system in this country is broken. Just look at the figures. At the time of writing (08:45) the results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}