{"id":572,"date":"2017-06-06T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=572"},"modified":"2017-06-07T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:50:46","slug":"dont-vote-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t vote Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tool by Avaaz to help you decide who to vote for to stop the Conservative Party gaining (more) power:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/campaign\/en\/uk_vote_smart_loc_cp\/?bTFKLgb&amp;v=93875&amp;cl=12714391012&amp;_checksum=8defa0d5999f1acec81225bfbdef74f6b601c84c9c677838658e114c027a1a73\">Avaaz \u2013 vote smart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Avery&#8217;s blog post on the disregard for the environment in the Conservative Party manifesto is worth a read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markavery.info\/2017\/05\/19\/conservative-party-manifesto\/\">http:\/\/markavery.info\/2017\/05\/19\/conservative-party-manifesto\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--\nAfter some deliberation, and despite being a Green Party member, I've decided to vote Labour. Here are my reasons, in brief.\n\n\n<ol>\n \t\n\n<li>It's a tactical vote, to reduce the chances of the Conservative Party gaining more power. Unlikely to have effect in Mid Bedfordshire where I live.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>The Green Party and Labour Party manifestos are sufficiently close that I don't strongly favour one over the other.<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>I'm keen to support the latest incarnation of the Labour Party, as I prefer it to the old one.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n&nbsp;\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tool by Avaaz to help you decide who to vote for to stop the Conservative Party gaining (more) power: Avaaz \u2013 vote smart. Mark Avery&#8217;s blog post on the disregard for the environment in the Conservative Party manifesto is worth a read: http:\/\/markavery.info\/2017\/05\/19\/conservative-party-manifesto\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}