{"id":3474,"date":"2016-05-06T19:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/knocked-up-email-from-scottish-politician-bemuses-voters\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:35:58","slug":"knocked-up-email-from-scottish-politician-bemuses-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/knocked-up-email-from-scottish-politician-bemuses-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"'Knocked up' email from Scottish politician bemuses voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 Sometimes it pays to go the extra mile when you’re a politician on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Scottish man says he’ll vote for first leader to reply to his tweet, politicians oblige<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur, who was standing for re-election in Orkney on Thursday, appears to have sent an emphatic email to potential voters ahead of the election \u2014 but his choice of wording may have confused some.<\/p>\n

Here’s Liam McArthur.<\/h2>\n
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And here’s the email a would-be voter said they received from him.<\/h2>\n
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Image: imgur\/johnnybuttocks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The image was shared<\/a> in the r\/Scotland subreddit on Thursday evening. Unsurprisingly, people had a few things to say about it. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LONDON \u2014 Sometimes it pays to go the extra mile when you’re a politician on the campaign trail. SEE ALSO: Scottish man says he’ll vote for first leader to reply to his tweet, politicians oblige Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}