{"id":914,"date":"2011-09-15T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=914"},"modified":"2011-09-15T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T02:09:55","slug":"the-independent-september-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"The Independent (September 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->In Britain, the Boundary Commission has proposed cutting the number of members of parliament (MPs) by 50. The Independent believes \u201cfewer MPs is a good thing.\u201d If approved, the plan to move from 650 MPs to 600 would provide annual cost savings of approximately \u00a312 million \u201ca saving worth making in an age of austerity not expected to be over by the time the measures take effect in 2015.\u201d<!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<p>In Britain, the Boundary Commission has proposed cutting the number of members of parliament (MPs) by 50. The Independent believes \u201cfewer MPs is a good thing.\u201d If approved, the plan to move from 650 MPs to 600 would provide annual cost savings of approximately \u00a312 million \u201ca saving worth making in an age of austerity not expected to be over by the time the measures take effect in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain, the Boundary Commission has proposed cutting the number of members of parliament (MPs) by 50. The Independent believes \u201cfewer MPs is a good thing.\u201d If approved, the plan to move from 650 MPs to 600 would provide annual cost savings of approximately \u00a312 million \u201ca saving worth making in an age of austerity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[920,919,760,118],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-boundary-commission","tag-mps","tag-parliament","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}