{"id":755,"date":"2009-05-25T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-campaigns-for-a-referendum-on-proportional-representation\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T02:13:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T21:13:50","slug":"pullman-campaigns-for-a-referendum-on-proportional-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-campaigns-for-a-referendum-on-proportional-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman campaigns for a referendum on proportional representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/may\/24\/mps-expenses-commons-reform\">letter to the Observer<\/a> today, a powerful alliance of public figures including Philip Pullman launched a campaign for a referendum on proportional representation on the same day as the next general election in the UK. They argue that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disclosure_of_expenses_of_British_Members_of_Parliament\">expenses crisis<\/a> &#8220;reveals a nation governed by a political elite that has stopped listening and who are accountable to no one but their party machines&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to the Observer today, a powerful alliance of public figures including Philip Pullman launched a campaign for a referendum on proportional representation on the same day as the next general election in the UK. They argue that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-campaigns-for-a-referendum-on-proportional-representation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}