{"id":69535,"date":"2016-04-12T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=961675bbaa90f40f0b2710653a4de8fd"},"modified":"2016-04-12T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T23:00:05","slug":"press-release-vaisakhi-2016-david-camerons-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69535","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Vaisakhi 2016: David Cameron’s message"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vaisakhi 2016: David Cameron\u2019s message<\/a><\/p>\n

Full transcript<\/h2>\n

David Cameron said:<\/p>\n

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I want to send my best wishes to everyone in Britain and around the world celebrating Vaisakhi.<\/p>\n

This time last year I marked the festival in Gravesend. I\u2019ll never forget joining the procession with my wife, Samantha, approaching the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara, a sea of colour, energy and unity. It was amazing to join the thousands of people celebrating the birth of the Khalsa, and an honour to kneel at the altar and make an offering.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just in Kent \u2013 nor just at Vaisakhi \u2013 that the British Sikh community shines so brightly. Day in, day out, right across our country, they prove they are a true British success story, following the pillars of their faith and excelling in every field, from enterprise to the arts, public services to politics, hospitality to academia.
\nIt\u2019s those values \u2013 of hard work, family and community \u2013 that characterises this community. They\u2019re Sikh values \u2013 and they\u2019re British values, too. <\/p>\n

This is also a special time for Hindus as they celebrate the beginning of their new year, yet another faith community that makes this country what I believe is the most successful, multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy on earth.<\/p>\n

So as the decorations go up, the streets spring into action and the music begins, let me wish everyone a wonderful Vaisakhi \u2013 and a great year to come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Cameron: "Let me wish everyone a wonderful Vaisakhi \u2013 and a great year to come."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}