{"id":1940,"date":"2007-02-27T22:08:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T22:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2007-02-27T22:09:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T22:09:21","slug":"tonights-letter-to-my-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s letter to my MP&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear Frank Dobson,<br \/>\nI write with reference to the free votes I understand are happening early next month on the composition of the House of Lords. I would urge you &#8211; as a democratic essential &#8211; to vote for a 100% elected chamber (and if that proves impossible the highest possible percentage of elected members), and the support the continuation of the principle of a bicameral chamber.<br \/>\nYours sincerely,<br \/>\nNatalie Bennett<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The background <a href = \"http:\/\/www.epolitix.com\/EN\/News\/200702\/7e3bc219-8ef4-4b30-b7f1-79afb6dc471d.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Frank Dobson, I write with reference to the free votes I understand are happening early next month on the composition of the House of Lords. I would urge you &#8211; as a democratic essential &#8211; to vote for a 100% elected chamber (and if that proves impossible the highest possible percentage of elected members), [&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-1940","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\/1940","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=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}