{"id":1299,"date":"2006-07-12T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/115272082586307561\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T18:24:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T18:24:01","slug":"labour-in-freefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/labour-in-freefall\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour in freefall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Labour project in total freefall? As it emerges that Lord Levy, the party&#8217;s chief fundraiser and chap in the ermine robe at the heart of the loans scandal, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/5173860.stm\">has been arrested<\/a>, could we also have <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/foreignaffairs\/story\/0,,1818826,00.html\">a new Hutton on our hands<\/a> as the body of a former colleague of one of the &#8220;Natwest Three&#8221;, due to be extradited to the US thanks to a bad treaty constantly <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/foreignaffairs\/story\/0,,1818801,00.html\">again defended by Blair<\/a>, is discovered? And all this on the back of months of consistent reports of failures and dodgy dealings, from Tessa Jowell&#8217;s hubby (soon to appear before an Italian judge) to Prescott&#8217;s penis. What else can go wrong for them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Labour project in total freefall? As it emerges that Lord Levy, the party&#8217;s chief fundraiser and chap in the ermine robe at the heart of the loans scandal, has been arrested, could we also have a new Hutton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/labour-in-freefall\/\">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-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}