{"id":13889,"date":"2014-03-08T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13889"},"modified":"2014-03-08T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T13:33:15","slug":"lord-biro-of-the-bus-pass-elvis-party-beats-liberal-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13889","title":{"rendered":"Lord Biro of the Bus Pass Elvis Party beats Liberal Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a council by-election this week, a candidate standing for the Bus Pass Elvis Party managed to poll more votes than the Liberal Democrat candidate, such is the unpopularity locally of the Lib Dems.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The by-election was in Clifton North, Nottingham and the Elvis\u00a0<\/span>candidate<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0was\u00a0David Laurence Bishop\u00a0who goes by the name Lord Biro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Sportingly a national Lib Dem spokesman said: &#8220;We are all shook up by the result.&#8221; The European and General Elections may shake them up a lot more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">More information <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26480506\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a council by-election this week, a candidate standing for the Bus Pass Elvis Party managed to poll more votes than the Liberal Democrat candidate, such is the unpopularity locally of the Lib Dems. The by-election was in Clifton North, Nottingham and the Elvis\u00a0candidate\u00a0was\u00a0David Laurence Bishop\u00a0who goes by the name Lord Biro. Sportingly a national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889","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=13889"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13895,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions\/13895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}