{"id":180312,"date":"2017-05-25T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/25\/im-impressed-2\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T02:26:00","slug":"im-impressed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/25\/im-impressed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Impressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn called for young people to register to vote in the UK, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/22\/boost-jeremy-corbyn-90000-young-people-register-vote-just-one\/\">90,000 of them registered in one day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Over 90,000 young people registered to vote on Sunday in a boost to Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s election campaign.  <\/p>\n<p>A total of 90,200 18- to- 24-year-olds applied to vote on 21 May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/performance\/register-to-vote\">according to the latest figures<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>It came as the Labour leader made a last-ditch plea for students to register to vote by stressing its manifesto pledge to abolish tuition fees as early as this September.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span>J<\/span>ust 6,827 55- to- 64-year-olds and &nbsp;2,628 65- to- 74-year-olds registered on Sunday- a day before applications&nbsp;close. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand why all those Blairites in Labour are so concerned about Corbyn&#8217;s leadership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly he cannot motivate people to vote for Labour.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am forced to invoke&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Iron%20Law%20of%20Institutions\">Iron Law of Institutions<\/a>, which states that people pursue power within an organization, even at the expense of the power of that organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn called for young people to register to vote in the UK, and 90,000 of them registered in one day: Over 90,000 young people registered to vote on Sunday in a boost to Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s election campaign. A total of 90,200 18- to- 24-year-olds applied to vote on 21 May, according to the latest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,371,642,374],"class_list":["post-180312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-iron-law-of-institutions","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}