{"id":289,"date":"2010-04-20T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2010-05-07T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:46:26","slug":"battersea-election-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/battersea-election-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Battersea Election 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Election.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-312\" title=\"Election\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Election-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Election-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Election.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Very little evidence of any campaigning in Battersea, despite it being a marginal seat. All we&#8217;ve had so far is a leaflet through the door from the Conservatives and Labour andI did see a battered Ford Fiesta with a few stickers from an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Policies I like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No increase in national insurance<\/li>\n<li>Citizenship for long stay immigrants<\/li>\n<li>Keeping Sure Start programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately these policies are one from each of the main parties, so it&#8217;s tricky to decide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very little evidence of any campaigning in Battersea, despite it being a marginal seat. All we&#8217;ve had so far is a leaflet through the door from the Conservatives and Labour andI did see a battered Ford Fiesta with a few stickers from an independent candidate. Policies I like: No increase in national insurance Citizenship for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/battersea-election-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battersea Election 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,84,83],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locally","tag-battersea","tag-election","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}