{"id":3190,"date":"2014-01-09T08:29:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T08:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2014-01-09T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T08:29:53","slug":"britain-hiding-under-a-duvet-of-doubt-and-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/britain-hiding-under-a-duvet-of-doubt-and-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain: Hiding under a duvet of doubt and debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/10555899\/Britain-cannot-afford-to-be-the-friendless-pariah-of-Europe.html\">Genuinely superb column by Mary Riddell in the Telegraph today<\/a>. Read in full. Considering the Telegraph&#8217;s decades of hostility to the EU (it&#8217;s the paper that employs the hard anti-EU Tory Tea Partier Dan Hannan, after all, and owners the Barclay brothers have been linked by some reports to UKIP), the tone and argument is little short of astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Britain \u2013 so recently the buccaneer of the world \u2013 has become insular to the point of agoraphobia. Recession and hardship at home have made the UK a nation of political navel-gazers&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;inward-looking politics are bolstering, rather than reducing, Britain\u2019s identity crisis. With power ebbing away abroad and the spectre of Scottish independence at home, Britons are wondering: who are we?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; The immigrant has become the convenient scapegoat for politicians\u2019 failures to maintain the wages and build the homes that citizens rightly demand. Just as insidiously, the EU has become a byword for the ills afflicting Britain when the truth \u2013 too dangerous for most politicians to air \u2013 is that it is the only antidote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genuinely superb column by Mary Riddell in the Telegraph today. Read in full. Considering the Telegraph&#8217;s decades of hostility to the EU (it&#8217;s the paper that employs the hard anti-EU Tory Tea Partier Dan Hannan, after all, and owners the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/britain-hiding-under-a-duvet-of-doubt-and-debt\/\">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":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","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=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}