{"id":2161,"date":"2007-07-18T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T08:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2007-07-19T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T10:42:53","slug":"caroline-lucas-selected-for-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2161","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Lucas selected for Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting. <a href = \"http:\/\/www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk\/\">Caroline Lucas<\/a> has won the pre-selection for Brighton Pavilion, generally considered the best chance for the Greens to win a Westminster seat at the next election (although there are a couple of other possibilities coming up close behind).<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the Green Party has had a pre-selection for a winnable seat, and it has gone better well &#8211; despite a snide report about it in the local paper, to which I won&#8217;t link.<\/p>\n<p>She was selected by 55%, with Keith Taylor, who has previously contested it, and who leads the party on council, with 45%.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update: <a href = \"http:\/\/jimjay.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/caroline-for-brighton-pavillion.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim<\/a> has written more on the selection.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting. Caroline Lucas has won the pre-selection for Brighton Pavilion, generally considered the best chance for the Greens to win a Westminster seat at the next election (although there are a couple of other possibilities coming up close behind). This is the first time the Green Party has had a pre-selection for a winnable seat, [&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-2161","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\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}