{"id":597,"date":"2015-05-02T00:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T23:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=597"},"modified":"2015-05-02T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:08:17","slug":"telegraph-financial-times-vote-smart-say-vote-lib-dem-in-harborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph, Financial Times & VoteSmart say Vote Lib Dem in Harborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1430418162\"More good news this week for Lib Dem Zuffar Haq<\/a>‘s election campaign in Harborough, Oadby and Wigston. The Liberal Democrats are already ahead in winning local elections since 2010, with 33 councillors to the Tories’ 17. They have been further boosted by the\u00a0 news that on 7th May, the Lib Dems will have more local election candidates than any other party in the constituency.<\/p>\n

Zuffar’s campaign now has the backing of both The Telegraph and The Financial Times no less.\u00a0 The Telegraph’s tactical voter guide<\/a> says voters who want David Cameron “to lose the election<\/strong><\/em>” should back the Liberal Democrats in Harborough, Oadby and Wigston.<\/p>\n

\"Harborough

The result last time in our area (Harborough)<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday’s Financial Times<\/a> said that in areas like ours where the Lib Dems are the main challenger, “we would vote tactically for them.<\/strong><\/em>”<\/p>\n

The paper also states,”The country would benefit from … Lib Dem moderation at Westminster,<\/strong><\/em>” and “Only Nick Clegg … has occupied the centre ground. He has argued persuasively that the Lib Dems contributed to sensible fiscal consolidation and tempered the wilder Tory impulses, particularly on Europe.<\/strong><\/em>”
\nFinally, VoteSmart<\/a>, an independent campaign with the aim, “to increase the success of left-of-centre parties<\/em><\/strong>” at the election also encourages people here to vote for Lib Dem Zuffar Haq as the best way to beat the Tories.<\/p>\n

\"telegraph

The Daily Telegraph backs the Lib Dems for voters in Harborough who don’t want a Tory majority<\/p><\/div>\n

\"votesmart

The Independent VoteSmart campaign backs the local Lib Dem candidate<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More good news this week for Lib Dem Zuffar Haq‘s election campaign in Harborough, Oadby and Wigston. The Liberal Democrats are already ahead in winning local elections since 2010, with 33 councillors to the Tories’ 17. They have been further boosted by the\u00a0 news that on 7th May, the Lib Dems will have more local […]<\/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":[21,12,37,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-harborough","category-lib-dem-party","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-9D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}