{"id":77382,"date":"2012-05-02T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=77382"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:11:35","slug":"big-smoke-interview-daniel-lambert-socialist-party-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=77382","title":{"rendered":"Big Smoke interview: Daniel Lambert, Socialist Party Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Lambert is running for the London Assembly in the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. Unlike other candidates this gregarious and lively socialist is not running on a platform of improving cycle lanes or making things better, but on the simple policy of abolishing capitalism in its\u00a0entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed in the Socialist Party shop in Lambeth, which is itself is a pretty impressive set up, we discussed capitalist, greed, racism and how people change their minds. I was struck by how Lambert focused on the innate goodness of people rather than problems that he felt needed to be fixed, which was an attractive and positive ethical message.<\/p>\n<p>However, judge for yourself whether a focus on the cause (capitalism) and not the symptoms (all the bad things going on) is for you;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6fzGmajVtDA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Lambert is running for the London Assembly in the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. Unlike other candidates this gregarious and lively socialist is not running on a platform of improving cycle lanes or making things better, but on the simple policy of abolishing capitalism in its\u00a0entirety. Filmed in the Socialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77445,"comment_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[607,141,140,125,608,358,720],"class_list":["post-77382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-daniel-lambert","tag-election2012","tag-interview","tag-lambeth","tag-socialist-party-of-great-britain","tag-southwark","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/dan-spgb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20Jsr-k86","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77447,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77382\/revisions\/77447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}