{"id":22,"date":"2010-04-12T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:27:04","slug":"labour-are-done-in-harborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Labour are &#8220;done in Harborough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barchart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23\" title=\"Harborough Result 2005\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barchart-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barchart-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barchart.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>Labour&#8217;s prospective candidate for Harborough appears to think that knocking on doors in Corby is a better use of his time that supporting his own campaign here.<\/p>\n<p>A Tweet from the Labour PPC on Saturday read:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Done in Harborough, now off to join @peterbowers, @Gavinlambert in Corby #labourdoorstep&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I cannot blame him given that they have come 3rd in every election since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>On May 6th Harborough, Oadby &amp; Wigston will elect a Lib Dem MP or a Tory MP. Labour appear to\u00a0appreciate \u00a0this and are spending their time in a nearby marginal seat in Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalengland.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/more-candidates-making-unwise-use-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Liberal England<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour&#8217;s prospective candidate for Harborough appears to think that knocking on doors in Corby is a better use of his time that supporting his own campaign here. A Tweet from the Labour PPC on Saturday read: &#8220;Done in Harborough, now off to join @peterbowers, @Gavinlambert in Corby #labourdoorstep&#8221; I cannot blame him given that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[11,48,13,10],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harborough","tag-election","tag-harborough","tag-labour","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}