{"id":1253,"date":"2006-05-14T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/14\/114760328649401351\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T13:59:23","slug":"blairs-bad-legislation-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/blairs-bad-legislation-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Blai&#8217;s bad legislation (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/story\/0,,1774399,00.html\">I&#8217;m crap at drawing up legislation &#8211; so what we need is even more legislation that I&#8217;ll draw up to counter the bad legislation I passed a few years ago!<\/a>&#8220;Labour&#8217;s latest slogan: If in doubt, chuck more laws at it until it goes away.*<\/p>\n<p>* Warning, though having been tested against terrorism, protestors, criminals, foreigners, and the entire population of Great Britain, tactic has yet to prove even slightly effective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair: &#8220;I&#8217;m crap at drawing up legislation &#8211; so what we need is even more legislation that I&#8217;ll draw up to counter the bad legislation I passed a few years ago!&#8220;Labour&#8217;s latest slogan: If in doubt, chuck more laws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/blairs-bad-legislation-again\/\">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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","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=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}