{"id":1495,"date":"2007-02-23T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/good-news-for-sir-patrick\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:44:57","slug":"good-news-for-sir-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/good-news-for-sir-patrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Sir Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/sir-patrick-cormacks-deselection\/\">surprising news<\/a> that his local constituency association executive had decided to deselect him after 37 years as an MP &#8211; and one of the most dedicated constituency MPs in the House &#8211; it turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6389807.stm\">they were even more stupid than I thought<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vote which would have ousted veteran Tory MP Sir Patrick Cormack has been declared null and void.<\/p>\n<p>David Billson, chairman of Staffs South Conservatives, said there had been a &#8220;clerical error&#8221; and a fresh vote would be held in the next two or three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It follows claims there were more votes cast than people present at a meeting last week to decide the MP&#8217;s future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the surprising news that his local constituency association executive had decided to deselect him after 37 years as an MP &#8211; and one of the most dedicated constituency MPs in the House &#8211; it turns out that they were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/good-news-for-sir-patrick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}