{"id":542,"date":"2007-06-29T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2007-06-29T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:52:18","slug":"house-of-lords-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"House of Lords reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House of Lords reform is unfinished business. The &#8216;mother of Parliaments&#8217; cannot be the only legislature in the democratic world with a chamber which does not have any elected members.<br \/>\nThe Campaign for a Democratic Upper House is a group of Labour Parliamentarians and activists who support a second chamber at least half of which is elected.<br \/>\nFormed in 2000, it took an active part campaigning for an elected upper house in the 2003 and 2007 Parliamentary votes, as well as in responding to earlier consultation proposals.<br \/>\nIts supporters as individuals back options from 50%+ to 100% elected, but understand the vital importance of compromise to achieve change on this issue.<br \/>\nYou can check out the web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticupperhouse.org.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Lords reform is unfinished business. The &#8216;mother of Parliaments&#8217; cannot be the only legislature in the democratic world with a chamber which does not have any elected members. The Campaign for a Democratic Upper House is a group of Labour Parliamentarians and activists who support a second chamber at least half of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","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\/542","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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}