{"id":424,"date":"2008-09-06T17:41:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:29:07","slug":"support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/424","title":{"rendered":"Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with joining any political party is that it is almost certain that you don&#8217;t agree with all of their policies. There is not much room for a Pro-Life Liberal or a Socialist who supports traditional marriage so inevitably you have to either compromise or abstain. I chose the former some years ago when I felt it was a duty to take a more active part in the running of the country and to make a small attempt to get views like mine recognised.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasant surprise then to find a lobby group (not a party) with which I could agree with every one of their campaigns so far.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1655286&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;group_id=3381\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1655286&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;group_id=3381\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/groups\/3381\/videos\/1655286?pg=embed&amp;sec=1655286\">Who&#8217;s Watching Who?<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/small?pg=embed&amp;sec=1655286\">Dean Whitbread<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1655286\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage anyone who agrees with them (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openrightsgroup.org\/\">The Open Rights Group<\/a>) to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with joining any political party is that it is almost certain that you don&#8217;t agree with all of their policies. There is not much room for a Pro-Life Liberal or a Socialist who supports traditional marriage so inevitably you have to either compromise or abstain. I chose the former some years ago when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}