{"id":1591,"date":"2011-04-23T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T11:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2011-04-23T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T11:42:03","slug":"voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/23\/voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made my views perfectly clear on where I stand on the forthcoming <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum%2C_2011\">AV referendum<\/a>. I just wanted to take this time to say that I really don&#8217;t mind how you vote as long as you get out there and exercise those muscles of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>This is only the second time in history that this country will have had a referendum involving the whole electorate &#8211; the first being The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Kingdom\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\">United Kingdom<\/a> referendum of 1975\u00a0to gauge support for the country&#8217;s continued membership of the\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"European Economic Community\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Economic_Community\">European Economic Community<\/a> (EEC). Chances like this don&#8217;t come around too often.<\/p>\n<p>So, get out and vote on May 5th whether you care about it or not. Do some reading, make a decision, and stick a cross in a box.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made my views perfectly clear on where I stand on the forthcoming AV referendum. I just wanted to take this time to say that I really don&#8217;t mind how you vote as long as you get out there and exercise those muscles of democracy. This is only the second time in history that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[98,273,771,872,1012,1046,1066,1712,1780,1920,2160,2403,3127],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-98","tag-april","tag-conservative","tag-david-cameron","tag-ed-miliband","tag-england","tag-european-economic-community","tag-labour","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-may","tag-nick-clegg","tag-politics","tag-united-kingdom-alternative-vote-referendum-2011","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6OeSW-voting","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}