{"id":182,"date":"2006-02-20T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/02\/20\/lib-dems-to-be-party-of-constitutional-revolution-says-campbell\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T15:08:02","slug":"lib-dems-to-be-party-of-constitutional-revolution-says-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/02\/20\/lib-dems-to-be-party-of-constitutional-revolution-says-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lib Dems to be party of constitutional revolution&#8217; says Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement made to day Ming Campbell said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to win power, so that we can give power away. I want us to be the champions, again, of people power.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see Citizens able to initiate inquiries; ask questions direct of decision-takers and have petitions debated.\u2026 In short, people power to replace unelected quango power so that government is servant and not master.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement was made in advance of a speech Ming Campbell  will deliver tonight at the Liberal Democrat Leadership Hustings in Manchester.  In the speech he will also call for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proportional representation for each and every election.<\/li>\n<li>A fully elected House of Lords.<\/li>\n<li>A robust Freedom of Information Act.<\/li>\n<li>A Civil Service that has its independence guaranteed.<\/li>\n<li>Local government able to make decisions over the running of local schools, hospitals and transport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the speech will posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/media-centre\/\">the Campbell campaign media centre<\/a> at 1900 today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement made to day Ming Campbell said I want to win power, so that we can give power away. I want us to be the champions, again, of people power. I want to see Citizens able to initiate inquiries; ask questions direct of decision-takers and have petitions debated.\u2026 In short, people power to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}