{"id":285,"date":"2005-01-13T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/the-anti-eu-case-and-a-quick-look-at-the-us\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T11:41:16","slug":"the-anti-eu-case-and-a-quick-look-at-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/the-anti-eu-case-and-a-quick-look-at-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti-EU case and a quick look at the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toby at Straight Banana has yet another good post on the pros and cons of the EU<\/a>, which promises to be the first in a series and kick off a few more of those lovely arguments the bloggosphere so excels at (viz my BNP post down the page). I’ll probably weigh in at some point, but am a tad busy at the mo.<\/p>\n

There’s some other worthwhile reading at Politick.info<\/a>, a blog linked via that awards thing which sadly doesn’t appear to allow linking to specific posts, including a transcript of Howard “Yeeeeeeeaaaaarrrrgh!” Dean’s letter announcing his intention to stand for Chairman of the Democrats, which – assuming he can keep himself under control and shake his image of being a tad insane – could be quite promising. Replace the word “Democrat” with “pro-Europeans” and “America” with “the EU”, it’s a fairly good model for building a good case for the constitution. Likewise, replace the word “Democrat” with “Conservatives”, “America” with “Britain”, and “states” with “constituencies” and you could have yourself a model for getting the Tories back on track…<\/p>\n

I’ll post the whole thing in a comment to this post as I haven’t got time to find a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toby at Straight Banana has yet another good post on the pros and cons of the EU, which promises to be the first in a series and kick off a few more of those lovely arguments the bloggosphere so excels … Continue reading →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}