{"id":1226,"date":"2015-03-10T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2018-09-11T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:05:43","slug":"politics-lecturer-on-bbc-south-east-sunday-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2015\/03\/10\/politics-lecturer-on-bbc-south-east-sunday-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Lecturer on BBC South East Sunday Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John FitzGibbon Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology was interviewed for the BBC South East Sunday Politics show on the 1st of March.<br \/>\n<!--more-->The topic was the potential outcome of the General Election result in the Constituency of Rochester and Strood. Dr. FitzGibbon noted that despite Mark Reckless of UKIP winning a by election there in November 2014 the higher turnout of a general election and importance of national issues, put him slightly behind the Conservative candidate Kelly Tolhurst.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1227\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/john-fitzgibbon-on-bbc-sunday-politics.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1227\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/john-fitzgibbon-on-bbc-sunday-politics.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Dr John FitzGibbon on BBC Sunday Politics\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr John FitzGibbon on BBC Sunday Politics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Effectively he argued, Mark Reckless has had to campaign on local issues and position himself as Rochester and Strood\u2019s man in Westminster. Kelly Tolhurst, in contrast, is running on a platform of a vote for her equalling a vote for David Cameron as Prime Minister and arguing that a vote for Reckless is a vote for Ed Miliband as leader of the country. Dr. FitzGibbon concluded by saying that the constituency is a fascinating microcosm of the intensely competitive nature of the general election campaign across the country as a whole. \u00a0A link to the report is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02lf5r0\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John FitzGibbon Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology was interviewed for the BBC South East Sunday Politics show on the 1st of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161081,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[217,977,1297,1933],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bbc-sunday-politics","tag-ge2015","tag-john-fitzgibbon","tag-rochester-and-strood"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Anna Vanaga","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2018\/08\/blogs-holding680x453.jpg","postExcerpt":"Dr. John FitzGibbon Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology was interviewed for the BBC South East Sunday Politics show on the 1st of March.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}