{"id":1230,"date":"2006-05-03T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/a-deportation-inanity-potkettle-name-calling-and-local-elections-quickie\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T14:49:25","slug":"a-deportation-inanity-potkettle-name-calling-and-local-elections-quickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/a-deportation-inanity-potkettle-name-calling-and-local-elections-quickie\/","title":{"rendered":"A deportation inanity, pot\/kettle name-calling, and local elections quickie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a real shame that Australia&#8217;s no longer simply a prison colony &#8211; it&#8217;d solve so many problems. Perhaps they could convert part of the Outer Hebrides instead? (I wouldn&#8217;t put it past them, actually&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>As it is, we&#8217;re now apparently planning on <a href=\"http:\/\/bsscworld.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/proceeding-energetically.html\">deporting people to pretty much anywhere that&#8217;ll take them<\/a>, whether the deportation is deserved or not, and whether they have any connection to the country to which they are going to be deported or not.<\/p>\n<p>But hey &#8211; as long as the Daily Mail&#8217;s happy, who cares, right?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4968606.stm\">at PMQs today<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr Blair accused Mr Cameron of using a &#8216;prearranged soundbite&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For Christ&#8217;s sake &#8211; grow up, you pathetic bunch of morons.<\/p>\n<p>Not a single party deserves either your vote or mine. I&#8217;ve read dozens of election pamphlets over the last few weeks &#8211; the only difference has been the colour-scheme. It looks like I&#8217;ll either be spoiling my ballot paper or not voting in an election for which I&#8217;m eligible for the first time since I hit 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a real shame that Australia&#8217;s no longer simply a prison colony &#8211; it&#8217;d solve so many problems. Perhaps they could convert part of the Outer Hebrides instead? (I wouldn&#8217;t put it past them, actually&#8230;) As it is, we&#8217;re now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/a-deportation-inanity-potkettle-name-calling-and-local-elections-quickie\/\">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":[8,24,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair","category-civil-liberties","category-conservatives","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","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=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}