{"id":169,"date":"2005-04-15T19:20:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2012-09-24T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:24:11","slug":"vote-why-should-i-politics-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Vote?  Why should I? (Politics #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rally in Trafalgar Square today &#8211; the object is to try to persuade the public to get out there and vote. I&#8217;d love to. There isn&#8217;t a political party for me though.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Labour\/Conservative. I&#8217;m grouping them together because they are both right wing parties (I&#8217;m sorry, but Labour is no longer even remotely left wing), and I can&#8217;t drive a wedge between them. They&#8217;re the same side of the same coin. To make matters worse, they&#8217;re both obsessed with pleasing the tabloid classes. &#8216;Are You Thinking What I&#8217;m Thinking?&#8217;. Actually, no. I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;ll be a cold day in hell before I vote for either of you.<\/li>\n<li>Liberal. I used to be a supporter of the Liberal party. Actually, I&#8217;m still a member &#8211; but only because I feel it&#8217;s my duty as an Englishman to support the underdog. I won&#8217;t be voting for bum-face and his politically correct cronies. A Liberal government would be very different from the Labour\/Conservative alternative &#8211; but (unfortunately) it wouldn&#8217;t be any better.<\/li>\n<li>Veritas, the Naz\u2026 er\u2026 UKIP. Er. No. I may be increasingly depressed with the state of politics &#8211; but I&#8217;m not stupid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am one of the most political people I know. And when I begin to think like this there is something very rotten at the core of British politics.<\/p>\n<p>So what would I like to see? Okay. Continue reading this blog to see my manifesto for the party I&#8217;d vote for. Discuss &#8211; change it for the better &#8211; at the moment these are just my ideas, and so very far from being perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rally in Trafalgar Square today &#8211; the object is to try to persuade the public to get out there and vote. I&#8217;d love to. There isn&#8217;t a political party for me though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}