{"id":1427,"date":"2009-05-26T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T06:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2009-05-26T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T06:29:01","slug":"does-the-british-political-system-need-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Does the British political system need reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it does &#8211; and, spurred by understandable outrage over MPs&#8217; expenses, all sorts of proposals are being mooted. Today the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron contributes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/may\/25\/david-cameron-a-new-politics\">a major article<\/a> in the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper of all places.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ve taken the opportunity to up-date my essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Britishpoliticalsystem.html\">&#8220;A Short Guide To The British Political System&#8221;<\/a> to list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Britishpoliticalsystem.html#CR\">some of the main reforms<\/a> that have been suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it does &#8211; and, spurred by understandable outrage over MPs&#8217; expenses, all sorts of proposals are being mooted. Today the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron contributes a major article in the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper of all places. So I&#8217;ve taken the opportunity to up-date my essay &#8220;A Short Guide To The British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","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\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}