{"id":1296,"date":"2006-07-11T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/home-office-policymaking-101\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T18:27:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T18:27:44","slug":"home-office-policymaking-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/home-office-policymaking-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office policymaking 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2264276,00.html\">Find out problem via leak to national newspaper<\/a><br \/>\n2) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5167678.stm\">Issue denial<\/a><br \/>\n3) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/content\/news\/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&#038;category=News&#038;tBrand=ENOnline&#038;tCategory=news&#038;itemid=NOED11%20Jul%202006%2010%3A00%3A27%3A117\">Have former Home Secretary who everyone hates slag the decision off<\/a><br \/>\n4) <a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/crimeandpunishment\/story\/0,,1817935,00.html\">Face media storm<\/a><br \/>\n5) Wait a few months, then capitualte once everyone&#8217;s started looking the other way.<\/p>\n<p>(Cf. tuition fees, top-up fees, on the spot fines, prison overcrowding, Blunkett leaving office, Clarke leaving office, ID cards, police force mergers, etc. etc. etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s colour-coded &#8220;Labour idiocy threat level&#8221; stands at Puce (middling to high idiocy), a slight decline from last week&#8217;s Prescott-inspired Vermillion and the weekend&#8217;s ID-card and Super Happy Fun Public Terror Threat Indicator prompted Burundy alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Find out problem via leak to national newspaper 2) Issue denial 3) Have former Home Secretary who everyone hates slag the decision off 4) Face media storm 5) Wait a few months, then capitualte once everyone&#8217;s started looking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/home-office-policymaking-101\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}