{"id":1120,"date":"2008-10-01T07:47:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T06:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2008-10-01T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T06:47:46","slug":"welcome-to-consumer-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Consumer Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months after I joined the Board of the newly created Consumer Focus, the organisation comes into effect today with the merger of Postwatch, Energywatch and the National Consumer Council.<br \/>\nIt is the largest and best-funded body in the history of the UK consumer movement with an economy-wide remit. As the credit crunch and the financial chaos hits all consumers, never more have they needed a strong voice. You can check out the organisation&#8217;s web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfocus.org.uk\/en\/content\/cms\/home\/home.aspx\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nConsumer Focus has an impressive Chief Executive Ed Mayo who runs a blog <a href=\"http:\/\/edmayo.wordpress.com\/\">here<\/a> and I have a distinguished group of colleagues on the Board as you&#8217;ll see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfocus.org.uk\/en\/content\/cms\/About_Us\/Board\/Board.aspx\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;m really looking forward to working with the staff and getting my teeth into some big issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months after I joined the Board of the newly created Consumer Focus, the organisation comes into effect today with the merger of Postwatch, Energywatch and the National Consumer Council. It is the largest and best-funded body in the history of the UK consumer movement with an economy-wide remit. As the credit crunch and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}