{"id":89,"date":"2006-12-20T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-12-20T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:21:16","slug":"chris-huhne-is-the-new-chair-of-make-votes-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Chris Huhne is the new chair of Make Votes Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"official website\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makemyvotecount.org.uk\/\">Make Votes Count<\/a> is a cross-party campaigning organisation which aims to call for and win a referendum on changing the way we elect Members of Parliament to a more representative system. I am a big supporter of this, and have been a <a title=\"Eastleigh constituency page for Make Votes Count\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makemyvotecount.org.uk\/php\/bin\/readarticle.php?articlecode=2953\">campaigner for Make Votes Count<\/a> for a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>So, I was interested to find out this evening that <a href=\"http:\/\/chrishuhne.org.uk\/\" title=\"Chris' website\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Huhne MP<\/a> has formally taken over as Chair of Make Votes Count. I used to work as a volunteer for Chris &#8211; including as a team leader on the campaign team to get him <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/vote2005\/html\/223.stm\" title=\"BBC News page for election result\" target=\"_blank\">elected as MP last year<\/a>. I rarely see him nowadays, but I think he&#8217;s a good choice and will make a good Chair. Congratulations and good luck, Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Votes Count is a cross-party campaigning organisation which aims to call for and win a referendum on changing the way we elect Members of Parliament to a more representative system. I am a big supporter of this, and have been a campaigner for Make Votes Count for a couple of years. So, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}