{"id":388512,"date":"2010-03-04T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11335"},"modified":"2010-03-04T08:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:44:12","slug":"get-your-mp-to-do-the-robin-hood-dance-or-just-sign-the-edm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388512","title":{"rendered":"Get your MP to do the Robin Hood Dance (or just sign the EDM)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/03\/target1-180x180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/03\/target1-180x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve probably already heard about the Robin Hood Tax, a tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad. If not, make sure you <a title=\"Robin Hood Tax main site\" href=\"http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/\" >read all about it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;re clued up,\u00a0have a look at this hilarious video of the\u00a0<a title=\"Robin Hood Dance video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2010\/02\/do-the-robin-hood-dance-make-the-robin-hood-face\/\" >Robin Hood dance<\/a>.\u00a0Have a bit of a wiggle\u00a0and then\u00a0why not get your local Member of Parliament to do the dance too?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so maybe that seems a bit impossible but what you can ask them to do is show their support by signing the <a title=\"EDM 913\" href=\"http:\/\/edmi.parliament.uk\/EDMi\/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=40522&amp;SESSION=903\" >Early Day Motion 913<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple! Just go to <a title=\"RHT EDM\" href=\"http:\/\/robinhoodtax.org.uk\/campaign-update\/political-actionedm913\/\" >this site<\/a>, type in your postcode and find out if your MP has signed the EDM. If they haven&#8217;t, ask them to and if they have, say thank you.<\/p>\n<p>The record for MPs signing an Early Day Motion was over 500 way back in 2002 so let&#8217;s see if we can beat it and get a step closer to making the Robin Hood Tax a reality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably already heard about the Robin Hood Tax, a tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad. If not, make sure you read all about it! Now that you&#8217;re clued up,\u00a0have a look at this hilarious video of the\u00a0Robin Hood dance.\u00a0Have a bit of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}