{"id":446,"date":"2005-04-21T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/a-message-to-voters-in-hampstead-highgate\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T23:07:00","slug":"a-message-to-voters-in-hampstead-highgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/a-message-to-voters-in-hampstead-highgate\/","title":{"rendered":"A message to voters in Hampstead &amp; Highgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can confirm that our Lib Dem candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edfordham.com\/\">Ed Fordham<\/a>, is a thoroughly nice chap. No typical party apparatchik either. Of course, the same can also be said for out Labour candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/person\/0,9290,-2669,00.html\">Glenda Jackson<\/a>. It&#8217;s a tough choice, but these two are the only choice. The Tories, from what I can tell, aren&#8217;t worth a look-in. But I&#8217;ve seen no campaign material from any party other than the Lib Dems.<\/p>\n<p>But our Glenda has the significant disadvantage of having Blair as her party leader&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will at this juncture declare an interest. I now owe Ed Fordham a pint. But I plan to get him one back at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Make your own decision, but &#8211; to paraphrase that old dude from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianajones.com\/crusade\/\">Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/a> &#8211; choose wisely. Don&#8217;t vote in fear &#8211; as the Labour party would have you do with their scare stories of a Conservative win &#8211; vote for someone with whom you agree and who is worthy not just of your respect, but of your vote and your voice\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can confirm that our Lib Dem candidate, Ed Fordham, is a thoroughly nice chap. No typical party apparatchik either. Of course, the same can also be said for out Labour candidate, Glenda Jackson. It&#8217;s a tough choice, but these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/a-message-to-voters-in-hampstead-highgate\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}