{"id":640,"date":"2005-07-14T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/14\/112135752147484755\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T16:53:52","slug":"house-of-lords-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/house-of-lords-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Lords reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll all be fascinated to know that I&#8217;ve just signed up for this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgebank.com\/lordsblog\">&#8220;I will &#8216;blog for victory&#8217; on the 10th of August by writing a post about the need for House of Lords reform, and link to the Elect the Lords campaign website but only if 20 other bloggers will too.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although having done so it&#8217;s entirely possible that on the day I may end up arguing that we need to go back to a hereditary upper chamber and that democracy&#8217;s overrated. Despite having had to write a briefing paper on Lord&#8217;s reform when I was working at the Commons I still don&#8217;t really have an opinion. All I do know is that the current system is a piss-poor worst of both worlds scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll all be fascinated to know that I&#8217;ve just signed up for this: &#8220;I will &#8216;blog for victory&#8217; on the 10th of August by writing a post about the need for House of Lords reform, and link to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/house-of-lords-reform\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}