{"id":4442,"date":"2026-04-21T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:58:54","slug":"voices-it-can-always-get-worse-readers-warn-voting-reform-could-backfire-at-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/voices-it-can-always-get-worse-readers-warn-voting-reform-could-backfire-at-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: \u2018It can always get worse\u2019: Readers warn voting Reform could backfire at local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some Swindon locals said \u2018things couldn\u2019t get worse\u2019 if they backed Reform UK in the upcoming local elections, readers warned that protest voting could instead deepen the issues behind that frustration \u2013 including pressure on public services, economic stagnation, and wider political instability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some Swindon locals said \u2018things couldn\u2019t get worse\u2019 if they backed Reform UK in the upcoming local elections, readers warned that protest voting could instead deepen the issues behind that frustration \u2013 including pressure on public services, economic stagnation, and wider political instability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}