{"id":38,"date":"2006-04-26T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-11-07T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T08:29:41","slug":"petition-calling-for-charles-clarkes-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/petition-calling-for-charles-clarkes-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition calling for Charles Clarke&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torytrouble.org.uk\/?p=557\">Rob Fenwick<\/a>, together with Mark Pack and yours truly, has just put up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/charles-clarke.html\">a petition calling for Charles Clarke&#8217;s resignation<\/a> on the front page of the federal site. Rob did the design and graphics. I did the &#8216;petition engine&#8217; (of which more at a later date) and most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/campaigns\/charles-clarke-buttons.html\">buttons<\/a>.  Mark drove the project overall, sorted out the fundraising and did the rest of the buttons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/charles-clarke.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/media\/buttons\/ClarkeMustGo468x60banner.gif\" alt=\"Lost - 1,023 prisoners - Charles Clarke must go - link to Lib Dem petition site\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Clegg has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/news\/clarke-should-go-clegg.html\">a short piece<\/a> which not only lays out why Clarke should go, but also points out how this fiasco illustrates the hollowness of Labour&#8217;s sanctimonious rhetoric on crime.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when more and more of UK government is being driven by central mandate rather than local democracy, it&#8217;s essential that those making the mandates are held personally to account.  These are, after all, people who believe so strongly in their own personal judgement and abilities that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveparliament.org.uk\/\">they believe that they should be able to unilaterally change the law without a vote in parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If losing 1,023 prisoners isn&#8217;t a resigning issue, then what is?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Fenwick, together with Mark Pack and yours truly, has just put up a petition calling for Charles Clarke&#8217;s resignation on the front page of the federal site. Rob did the design and graphics. I did the &#8216;petition engine&#8217; (of which more at a later date) and most of the buttons. Mark drove the project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/petition-calling-for-charles-clarkes-resignation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Petition calling for Charles Clarke&#8217;s resignation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}