{"id":803,"date":"2009-05-28T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=803"},"modified":"2009-05-28T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:49:08","slug":"the-european-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"The European Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:418,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/world\\\/europe\\\/7819889.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/europe\\\/7819889.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:144,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scout.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scout.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:419,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scout.org\\\/en\\\/content\\\/download\\\/16217\\\/140319\\\/file\\\/20090522_Purple%20Manifesto_E.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scout.org\\\/en\\\/content\\\/download\\\/16217\\\/140319\\\/file\\\/20090522_Purple%20Manifesto_E.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eu-flag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"EU_Flag\" border=\"0\" alt=\"EU_Flag\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/eu-flag-thumb.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a> What\u2019s that got to do with the price of kippers??? Er, sorry Scouting? <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Now as I\u2019ve often said, party politics and Scouting are a big no no. However engaging our politicians with issues relevant to young people and Scouting is a sensible thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">With the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7819889.stm\" target=\"_blank\">European Elections<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scout.org\" target=\"_blank\">WSOM<\/a> have issued what they are calling their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scout.org\/en\/content\/download\/16217\/140319\/file\/20090522_Purple%20Manifesto_E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Purple Manifesto\u2019<\/a> to be given to European politicians. The main aims are &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Empower Volunteers   <br \/>\u2022 Better Social Inclusion of Young People    <br \/>\u2022 Strengthen Global Partnerships for Development    <br \/>\u2022 Remove obstacles to Scouting    <br \/>\u2022 Make employability of young people a priority in European Union (EC)    <br \/>\u2022 Integrate young people in shaping Europe<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Good ideas, but I wonder how many candidates and then MEPs will actually read it? To be honest, I wouldn\u2019t know which MEPs represented me (we get 6 for our region) if they ran past my house shouting \u2018woo hoo I\u2019m your MEP\u2019!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I\u2019d love to think this document will make a difference, time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s that got to do with the price of kippers??? Er, sorry Scouting? Now as I\u2019ve often said, party politics and Scouting are a big no no. However engaging our politicians with issues relevant to young people and Scouting is a sensible thing. With the forthcoming European Elections, the WSOM have issued what they are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The European Elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-cX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}