{"id":1019,"date":"2006-01-07T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/07\/well-thats-the-lib-dems-fucked\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T15:44:00","slug":"well-thats-the-lib-dems-fucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/well-thats-the-lib-dems-fucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, that&#8217;s the Lib Dems fucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4590688.stm\">Nice going, guys<\/a>. Hound out of office the only one of you anyone knows and likes (bar Lembit Opik, who no one takes seriously), and show yourselves up to be a bunch of infighting, childish morons in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Lib Dems take note for future reference: the reason no one takes you seriously as a political party is not because your leader&#8217;s a pissartist, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;ve got a bunch of utterly stupid and often contradictory policies knocking about and not enough MPs to make an impact on anything.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these are Kennedy&#8217;s fault &#8211; the former is thanks to your overly &#8220;democratic&#8221; party structure (what&#8217;s the point of a leader in a direct democracy anyway? He was little more than a spokesman&#8230;), the latter due to the current electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>Your next leader&#8217;s not going to manage any better &#8211; in fact, he&#8217;s almost certain to do a hell of a lot worse in the current climate where both main parties are fighting over a tiny patch of the centre ground with personalities and prettiness. All he\/she is likely to manage is to secure Kennedy a place in party history as the fondly-remembered might have been man.<\/p>\n<p>Bye bye, Lib Dems &#8211; it was nice knowing you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice going, guys. Hound out of office the only one of you anyone knows and likes (bar Lembit Opik, who no one takes seriously), and show yourselves up to be a bunch of infighting, childish morons in the process. Lib &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/well-thats-the-lib-dems-fucked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}