{"id":63289,"date":"2022-06-09T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=63289"},"modified":"2022-06-09T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:58:50","slug":"its-not-just-the-monarchy-we-need-to-be-rid-of-we-need-total-electoral-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/09\/its-not-just-the-monarchy-we-need-to-be-rid-of-we-need-total-electoral-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not just the monarchy we need to be rid of: we need total electoral reform."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001818h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last night's Moral Maze,\u00a0<\/a>in which I appeared:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13-550x387.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13-550x387.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13-426x300.png 426w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13-768x541.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13-1536x1082.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13-568x400.png 568w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-09.55.13.png 1866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am afraid that is not embedded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001818h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you have to go to the website to listen<\/a>, starting my bit at 27 minutes in.<\/p>\n<p>My argument was that we do not just need to be rid of the monarchy, but need total democratic reform.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-arguments were pretty lame, in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was last night&#8217;s Moral Maze,\u00a0in which I appeared: I am afraid that is not embedded: you have to go to the website to listen,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/09\/its-not-just-the-monarchy-we-need-to-be-rid-of-we-need-total-electoral-reform\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}