{"id":1740,"date":"2008-03-14T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T10:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2008-03-14T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T10:57:01","slug":"two-nutty-anti-eu-myths-dispelled-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/two-nutty-anti-eu-myths-dispelled-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Two nutty anti-EU myths dispelled in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Myth 1: The EU blindly supports the climate change lobby<\/strong> (Oh noes! Teh Brussels bureaucrats am all Greenpeace activists!)<\/p>\n<p>Erm: <a href=\"http:\/\/ukpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jsPtA3BE4tqh3c_r4KCzZ1EdmOhw\">EU dismisses Brown green VAT plan<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s plan to slash VAT on environmentally-friendly goods has been given the thumbs down at an EU summit in Brussels&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 2: The EU blindy supports Muslim interests<\/strong> (Oh noes! Teh Dhimmis am making teh EUrabia!)<\/p>\n<p>Erm: <a href=\"http:\/\/ukpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h9zxJH2A7NCbX9uOvRN4_Dly3Lrg\">EU solidarity over anti-Koran film<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Holland&#8217;s prime minister said he had won broad EU solidarity from the bloc&#8217;s leaders in case the expected release of an anti-Koran film by a maverick Dutch politician leads to violence&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth 1: The EU blindly supports the climate change lobby (Oh noes! Teh Brussels bureaucrats am all Greenpeace activists!) Erm: EU dismisses Brown green VAT plan &#8220;Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s plan to slash VAT on environmentally-friendly goods has been given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/two-nutty-anti-eu-myths-dispelled-in-one-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[178,45],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-idiocy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}