{"id":407,"date":"2010-04-07T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:36:21","slug":"election-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2010\/04\/07\/election-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2010&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Election is coming &#8211; of course it has been called for a date when I am going to be out of the country; why I had even hoped that I would eb able to vote in person is beyond me, surely I know better&#8230;  Anyway, I wandered over to VoteMatch.org.uk today, and was vindicated in my general belief \/ assumption that I am <strong><em>closest<\/em><\/strong> to the Liberal Democrats, but as you can see below they and I are only a 45% match&#8230;  When will someone in British Politics start speaking to the issues that I really give a fig about, I wonder..?<\/p>\n<p>My results:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/lj_images\/VoteMatch2010Oliver.png' alt='VoteMatch results for Oliver Godby'\/><\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you have a go?<\/p>\n<p><!-- start Votematch --><\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.votematch.org.uk\/2010\/index.php\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>You are reading this because your browser doesn&#8217;t support Iframes.<\/p>\n<p>         Try this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votematch.org.uk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>     <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- end Votematch --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Election is coming &#8211; of course it has been called for a date when I am going to be out of the country; why I had even hoped that I would eb able to vote in person is beyond me, surely I know better&#8230; Anyway, I wandered over to VoteMatch.org.uk today, and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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":[69,76],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-election2010","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wrUK-6z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}