{"id":42980,"date":"2025-12-18T04:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-fed-up-scottish-town-that-voted-for-reform-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:46:13","slug":"the-fed-up-scottish-town-that-voted-for-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-fed-up-scottish-town-that-voted-for-reform-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;fed up&#8217; Scottish town that voted for Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Reform UK have pulled off a surprise victory in a council by-election in the ward of Whitburn and Blackburn in West Lothian &#8211; their first ever win in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC political correspondent David Wallace Lockhart went to Whitburn to find why people decided to turn to Nigel Farage&#8217;s party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"filmed-and-edited-by-morgan-spence\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Filmed and edited by Morgan Spence<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cvg14r93v13o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK have pulled off a surprise victory in a council by-election in the ward of Whitburn and Blackburn in West Lothian &#8211; their first ever win in Scotland. BBC political correspondent David Wallace Lockhart went to Whitburn to find why people decided to turn to Nigel Farage&#8217;s party. Filmed and edited by Morgan Spence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[4264,2892,1706,957,4689],"class_list":["post-42980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-fed","tag-reform","tag-scottish","tag-town","tag-voted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42982,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42980\/revisions\/42982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}