{"id":1434,"date":"2009-06-03T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2009-06-03T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T09:56:40","slug":"many-green-policies-make-me-see-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Many Green policies make me see red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be voting Labour tomorrow as I have done in every election since I gained the right to vote 43 years ago.<br \/>\nI feel strongly about the issue of climate change and support measures to protect the environment but, if ever I was tempted to vote for the Green Party, I would pull back because of its anti-science policies as highlighted in <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/science\/2009\/06\/political-science-be-careful-what-you-vote-for.html\">this article<\/a>.<br \/>\nOne of my closest friends is doing valuable pioneering work on stem cell research, but the Greens want to ban all experiments on embryos, including those designed to improve fertility treatment, as well as embryonic stem cell work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be voting Labour tomorrow as I have done in every election since I gained the right to vote 43 years ago. I feel strongly about the issue of climate change and support measures to protect the environment but, if ever I was tempted to vote for the Green Party, I would pull back because [&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-1434","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\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}