{"id":76970,"date":"2012-05-01T21:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=76970"},"modified":"2012-05-01T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:33:26","slug":"big-smoke-interview-mike-tuffrey-lib-dem-assembly-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=76970","title":{"rendered":"Big Smoke Interview: Mike Tuffrey, Lib Dem Assembly Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke to Mike Tuffrey one of the two outgoing Liberal Democrat Assembly Members three weeks ago and, two days before the election, we&#8217;ve just managed to get it up online.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, due to building works that suddenly started up next to where we were filming, we&#8217;ve had to edit out one very revealing question about privatisation in public services where Mr Tuffrey described various PFI projects as &#8220;crackers&#8221; because they were more expensive than doing it in-house. C&#8217;est La vie.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, judge what he has to say for yourselves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hak9ffNDNk8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke to Mike Tuffrey one of the two outgoing Liberal Democrat Assembly Members three weeks ago and, two days before the election, we&#8217;ve just managed to get it up online. Sadly, due to building works that suddenly started up next to where we were filming, we&#8217;ve had to edit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77052,"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":[585,140,241,362,720],"class_list":["post-76970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-elections2012","tag-interview","tag-liberal-democrats","tag-mike-tuffrey","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuffrey.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20Jsr-k1s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77054,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76970\/revisions\/77054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}