{"id":1340,"date":"2006-08-31T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/31\/115701678624300413\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:48:24","slug":"charles-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/charles-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Clarke: hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/5300000.stm\">Today:<\/a> &#8220;Infighting within the Labour Party will help the Conservatives at the next general election, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/homeaffairs\/story\/0,,1806799,00.html\">Two months ago:<\/a> &#8220;In what amounts to <strong>one of the most public rows among senior Blairites since 1997<\/strong>, Mr Clarke rejected claims that recent bad publicity showed he had lost control of his department. &#8216;I disagree. I argue that the way it&#8217;s gone is a direct consequence of the way the current home secretary has conducted his responsibilities,&#8217; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nice to see he&#8217;s just as much of an inconsistent, loud-mouthed moron out of office as he was in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today: &#8220;Infighting within the Labour Party will help the Conservatives at the next general election, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said.&#8221;Two months ago: &#8220;In what amounts to one of the most public rows among senior Blairites since 1997, Mr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/charles-clarke\/\">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-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}