{"id":2200,"date":"2009-05-25T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2009-05-25T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T22:11:52","slug":"a-quick-guide-to-the-british-voting-system-for-the-eu-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-quick-guide-to-the-british-voting-system-for-the-eu-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick guide to the British voting system for the EU elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The really short version? It&#8217;s utterly rubbish. But this is how it works, courtesy of a short film by the Green Party:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fv0uHWxhLgs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fv0uHWxhLgs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> This is not an endorsement of the Green Party. But their logic for preventing BNP leader Nick Griffin from getting a seat does have its merits. I&#8217;d prefer it if you researched the parties and their candidates and cast your vote based on who tallies most with your views, but if you must protest vote, with a likely low turnout at the upcoming elections we&#8217;re in a situation where votes for the Greens and UKIP are more likely to be the clinchers that will help prevent the fascists from getting a seat than ones for the Tories, Labour or the Lib Dems. (Yes, I think UKIP are more or less a joke party with ill-thought-out policies and some unpleasant undertones to much of their rhetoric, but at least they aren&#8217;t Nazis.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The really short version? It&#8217;s utterly rubbish. But this is how it works, courtesy of a short film by the Green Party: Note: This is not an endorsement of the Green Party. But their logic for preventing BNP leader Nick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-quick-guide-to-the-british-voting-system-for-the-eu-elections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-elections","category-eu","category-other-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","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=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}