{"id":27600,"date":"2013-02-12T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/02\/12\/eastleigh-by-election-tor_n_2667938.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP"},"modified":"2013-02-12T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:56:53","slug":"was-tory-by-election-candidates-copied-from-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/was-tory-by-election-candidates-copied-from-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Tory By-Election Candidate&#8217;s Copied From Wikipedia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The Conservative candidate in the Eastleigh by-election has apparently copied parts of her website from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Hutchings has boasted of her local links and says: &#8220;I am always out and about in the constituency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maria hutchings\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/986702\/thumbs\/o-MARIA-HUTCHINGS-570.jpg?6\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tory candidate Martia Hutchings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But she has been embarrassed after it was revealed the &#8220;Eastleigh&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vote4maria.co.uk%2Findex.php%2Feastleigh\" >section of her campaign site<\/a> was remarkably similar to the town&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEastleigh\" >Wikipedia entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her Liberal Democrat rival, Mike Thornton, responded by offering to show her around the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchings has been dubbed the &#8220;English Sarah Palin&#8221; because of her robust views on <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstatesman.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F02%2Fhow-tory-election-candidate-maria-hutchings-attacked-asylum-seekers\" >immigration and human rights<\/a>, and has said she would vote to withdraw from the European Union in a referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election is being held on February 28 to replace former Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne, who <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk%2F2013%2F02%2F04%2Fchris-huhne-pleads-guilty_n_2613982.html\" >resigned after admitting perverting the course of justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are vying for the prize seat, and Tory heavyweight <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FEricPickles%2Fstatus%2F301058290215944193\" >tweeted his support<\/a> after a visit on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative candidate in the Eastleigh by-election has apparently copied parts of her website from Wikipedia.<br \/>\nMaria Hutchings has boasted of her local links and says: &#8220;I am always out and about in the constituency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tory candidate Martia Hutchin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}