{"id":25439,"date":"2017-07-02T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=25439"},"modified":"2017-07-02T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T17:19:56","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ah, the unnecessary general election. Now, I can go into a pretty major rant about this but given my own rules that I can only focus on the positives in life on this site you\u2019ll have to buy me a gin and tonic and let me step onto my soapbox to hear that one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what\u2019s so fizzy inducing about the outcome of this general election. Well, let me tell you\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s performance was brilliant. I voted for him as leader and then had my hopes crushed as I watched the Labour Party tear itself to bits rather than hold the government to account. I didn\u2019t\u00a0doubt his sincerity or policies but I did doubt his leadership. He\u2019s played a blinder and I\u2019m interested to see what happens next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the fizzy making stuff &#8211; oh my Lord &#8211; the youth vote! Political engagement in 18-24 year olds. People using their vote for what they believed and making a difference. The figure that\u2019s being quoted is 64% of registered 18-24 year olds voted but that\u2019s yet to be verified but it feels like people are more involved and care about who governs them. I\u2019ve overheard some passionate debates recently; we\u2019ve got a young electorate that want equality at all levels of society and are willing to shout about it and vote for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It gives me the serious fizzy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the unnecessary general election. Now, I can go into a pretty major rant about this but given my own rules that I can only focus on the positives in life on this site you\u2019ll have to buy me a gin and tonic and let me step onto my soapbox to hear that one. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[34],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/82780317_dog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25445,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions\/25445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}