{"id":281,"date":"2010-05-18T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-05-18T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:31:12","slug":"2010s-martin-kyslun-meet-godfrey-spickernell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/18\/2010s-martin-kyslun-meet-godfrey-spickernell\/","title":{"rendered":"2010&#8217;s Martin Kyslun: Meet Godfrey Spickernell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasjpitts.co.uk\/hsxsblog\/2005\/05\/election-2005-martin-kyslun.html\" target=\"blank\">I wrote about Martin Kyslun<\/a>. I fully expected to see his name among the election results when they were finally published. However, I did not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk\/News\/Election-protester-dies-in-fall.htm\" target=\"blank\">This is the reason why<\/a>. Sorry, belatedly, to hear of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Martin famously received 5 votes in 2005 &#8211; and now that I&#8217;m older I can appreciate better his reasons for standing in the first place.<br \/>\nThis year, Godfrey Spickernell received the least votes in his constituency of Chelsea &amp; Fulham, gaining 17 votes for his Blue Environment Party (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/election2010\/results\/constituency\/b01.stm\" target=\"blank\">Source: BBC News<\/a>). Now, given that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Green party\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_party\">the Green Party<\/a> until this election had never won a seat, the desire to replace the Green Party was somewhat ambitious. However, I admire him for trying, even though I certainly do not agree with all that is written on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blueenvironmentparty.org\/index.html\">comprehensive website<\/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>Back in 2005, I wrote about Martin Kyslun. I fully expected to see his name among the election results when they were finally published. However, I did not. This is the reason why. Sorry, belatedly, to hear of his passing. Martin famously received 5 votes in 2005 &#8211; and now that I&#8217;m older I can [&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],"tags":[92,380,651,1023,1276,1342,1897,1920,2403],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2010","tag-92","tag-bbc","tag-chelsea-fulham","tag-elections","tag-godfrey-spickernell","tag-green","tag-martin-kyslun","tag-may","tag-politics","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-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}