{"id":53,"date":"2010-07-12T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-12-16T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T10:55:13","slug":"date-of-the-av-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/2010\/07\/12\/politics\/date-of-the-av-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Date of the AV referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>David Cameron has been urged to rethink plans for holding a referendum on voting reform at the same time as the Scottish Parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s First Minister Alex Salmond said in a letter to the prime minister that holding the votes on the same day could &#8220;overshadow&#8221; devolved issues.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/10586076.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/10586076.stm<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be honest, if the voters allow the referendum to overshadow devolved issues, they probably don&#8217;t really care enough about those devolved issues. For those that do care, how on earth is an additional unrelated vote going to confuse them?<\/p>\n<p>Tell the electorate what you stand for, outline your policies, if you can&#8217;t get your message across to them the failure is yours! A message for <i>any<\/i> political party.<\/p>\n<p><small>Featured image Open Science &#8211; <a title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">some rights reserved<\/a> by <a id=\"yui_3_11_0_3_1387190980973_450\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gemmerich\/\">gemmerich<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has been urged to rethink plans for holding a referendum on voting reform at the same time as the Scottish Parliamentary election. Scotland&#8217;s First Minister Alex Salmond said in a letter to the prime minister that holding the votes on the same day could &#8220;overshadow&#8221; devolved issues. http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/10586076.stm To be honest, if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[92,94,80,76,90],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-av","tag-democracy","tag-electoral-reform","tag-ppuk","tag-referendum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}