{"id":67,"date":"2014-10-29T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:02:55","slug":"a-government-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"A Government Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning, while watching the featureless sky outside this window and waiting for Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions to start, I&#8217;m reminded of a turning point in British political history.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit, you can hear the exact moment in 1979 when James Callaghan&#8217;s Labour government was challenged, by Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s Conservative opposition, to a vote of no confidence. As everyone knows, the vote was carried and thus an election was forced leading to a succession of Conservative governments.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-67-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/No_Confidence_Vote_UK_Parliament_March_1979.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/No_Confidence_Vote_UK_Parliament_March_1979.m4a\">http:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/No_Confidence_Vote_UK_Parliament_March_1979.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The speeches surrounding this motion, by the two party leaders, can be heard in longer form <a title=\"UK Parliament Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/living-heritage\/evolutionofparliament\/parliamentwork\/communicating\/overview\/hansardoftheair\/margaret-thatchers-motion-of-no-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\">by clicking this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning, while watching the featureless sky outside this window and waiting for Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions to start, I&#8217;m reminded of a turning point in British political history. Thanks to the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit, you can hear the exact moment in 1979 when James Callaghan&#8217;s Labour government was challenged, by Margaret &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/?p=67\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Government Falls<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-film-making","category-getting-old","category-journalism","category-legislation","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwarburton.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}