{"id":1731,"date":"2006-12-08T02:12:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2006-12-08T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T02:31:05","slug":"the-result-of-the-kentish-town-byelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"The result of the Kentish Town byelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final result (after two recounts requested by Labour) was: Lib Dem 1,098, Green 812, Labour 808, and Tory 198.<\/p>\n<p>In an old Labour stronghold, second is a fine result. We just haven&#8217;t yet found a way to get around the sheer weight of a Lib Dem national swarm. They threw MPs around like confetti, hoardes of activists, and a forest of paper. <\/p>\n<p>It was hollow electioneering pure and simple &#8211; and if it could be shown up as such, the vote would pop like a yellow balloon. (Very few people &#8211; outside the activists &#8211; want a Lib Dem poster in their window.) <\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; I lost the bet on the turnout: it was something like 32% &#8211; still pretty high for a byelection.<\/p>\n<p>I am now going to sleep. I may be some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final result (after two recounts requested by Labour) was: Lib Dem 1,098, Green 812, Labour 808, and Tory 198. In an old Labour stronghold, second is a fine result. We just haven&#8217;t yet found a way to get around the sheer weight of a Lib Dem national swarm. They threw MPs around like confetti, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}