{"id":393,"date":"2005-03-28T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/more-bullshit-scare-tactics\/"},"modified":"2005-03-28T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T08:15:00","slug":"more-bullshit-scare-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/more-bullshit-scare-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"More bullshit scare tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Blogging Labour MP Tom Watson (which sparked off an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tom-watson.co.uk\/archives\/2005\/03\/protest_voting.html\">discussion<\/a>, at least), this time it&#8217;s Peter &#8220;Two Jobs&#8221; Hain spouting the guff about how <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,9115,1446823,00.html\">if you vote Lib Dem you&#8217;ll get the Tories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I believe someone said before &#8211; &#8220;Vote Kennedy, possibly get Howard &#8211; but vote Blair, get Blair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backingblair.co.uk\/vote_blair\/\">Watch this<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backingblair.co.uk\/unbelievable\/\">Watch this<\/a>.  Try and <a href=\"http:\/\/chickyog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/spot-difference.html\">spot the difference between the two parties<\/a>. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/chickyog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/backing-blair-updated.html\">remind yourself of some of the other crap<\/a>. Then at least consider checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicvoter.org.uk\/\">Strategic Voter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote4peace.org.uk\/\">Vote 4 Peace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonowwhodowevotefor.net\/\">So Now Who Do We Vote For?<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backingblair.co.uk\/\">Backing Blair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, judging by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,1065-1542433,00.html\">what happened in Birmingham<\/a> last time elections were held, even if you do try and vote for another party Labour will just alter your ballot paper anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/if-youve-done-nothing-wrong-youve-got.html\">it&#8217;s great<\/a> to be <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/blair-government-gives-two-fingers-to.html\">living in<\/a> such a <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/its-for-your-own-good-you-know.html\">wonderfully free<\/a> country, <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/thank-lord-for-lords.html\">isn&#8217;t it<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Blogging Labour MP Tom Watson (which sparked off an interesting discussion, at least), this time it&#8217;s Peter &#8220;Two Jobs&#8221; Hain spouting the guff about how if you vote Lib Dem you&#8217;ll get the Tories. As I believe someone said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/more-bullshit-scare-tactics\/\">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-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}