{"id":323,"date":"2005-02-08T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T07:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/how-to-lose-a-general-election\/"},"modified":"2005-02-08T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T07:43:45","slug":"how-to-lose-a-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/how-to-lose-a-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"How to lose a General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Have no policies to speak of<br \/>\nStep 2: Be led by a shifty bloke who everyone blames for the Poll Tax<br \/>\nStep 3: Sue the single biggest media owner in the country<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Conservative party: political fucking genius.<\/p>\n<p>(Links later when they appear. Rest assured, <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/media\/story\/0,12123,1408107,00.html\">the Tories are suing the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times newspaper<\/a>, thus ensuring the hostility of Sky News, The Sun and The News of the World to boot. The Sun and The News of the World &#8211; lest we forget &#8211; having more readers between them than pretty much every other newspaper in the country put together&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Have no policies to speak of Step 2: Be led by a shifty bloke who everyone blames for the Poll Tax Step 3: Sue the single biggest media owner in the country Ladies and gentlemen, may I present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/how-to-lose-a-general-election\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}