{"id":242,"date":"2009-07-31T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T10:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T10:05:40","slug":"time-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/31\/time-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For A Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve signed a letter to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gordon Brown\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/\">Gordon Brown<\/a> asking for a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Referendum\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Referendum\">referendum<\/a> at the next election on the way we elect our <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politician\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politician\">politicians<\/a>. As a supporter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/voteforachange.co.uk\/content\/index\" target=\"blank\">Vote for a Change<\/a> campaign I believe there&#8217;s been too much talk and not enough action on bringing about the reform at Westminster we need to clean up our <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politics\">politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s high time that people were given the chance to reform our unrepresentative <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voting system\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting_system\">voting system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please sign the letter too and add your name to the thousands of voices telling our politicians it&#8217;s time for change. You can read the letter to the PM <a href=\"http:\/\/voteforachange.co.uk\/deargordon\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>.<\/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 signed a letter to Gordon Brown asking for a referendum at the next election on the way we elect our politicians. As a supporter of the Vote for a Change campaign I believe there&#8217;s been too much talk and not enough action on bringing about the reform at Westminster we need to clean up [&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":[39,17],"tags":[90,1299,1647,1688,1945,2402,2403,2438,3040,3190],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2010","category-linkage","tag-90","tag-gordon-brown","tag-july","tag-kirkcaldy-and-cowdenbeath-uk-parliament-constituency","tag-member-of-parliament","tag-politician","tag-politics","tag-prime-minister","tag-tony-blair","tag-voting","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\/p6OeSW-3U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}