{"id":403,"date":"2005-04-06T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/06\/more-election-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T14:11:00","slug":"more-election-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/more-election-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"More election nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A re-edited splice of a couple of posts of mine from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalelection05.com\/blog\/\">General Election Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/section\/0,,20809,00.html\">The Times<\/a> has now launched its own election blog. Considering the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggerheads.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/murdoch_whats_h.asp\">confusion about which way Times owner Rupert Murdoch will swing<\/a>, it could prove interesting &#8211; even if there don&#8217;t appear to be comments yet.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/today\/\">Today Programme<\/a> will apparently also be launching an election blog soon &#8211; perhaps even today. And we all know how the government feels about the Today Programme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/vote_2005\/blog\/default.stm\">BBC Election Blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/redpepper.blogs.com\/election\/\">Red Pepper Election Blog<\/a>, as well as the previously-mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/election2005\/\">Election 2005 Blog<\/a> from The Guardian. Let me know if you spot more.<\/p>\n<p>In other blog news, after the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/thankyoutony.com\/\">Thank You Tony<\/a>, I&#8217;m on the lookout for previously unlikely supporters of a &#8220;Labour&#8221; leader who are coming out in support of our Tony for this election. A couple of examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanpatriots.com\/index.php?p=1175\">The American Patriots<\/a>, who announce &#8220;Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a historic moment, I am supporting a leftist for the first time in my entire life.&#8221; This coming from a blogger who, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanpatriots.com\/index.php?p=1180\">another recent post<\/a>, announces very simply that &#8220;I don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt like liberals&#8221;. Not exactly Old Labour&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianpenny.com\/archived\/004118.html\">Daimnation!<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Because of Blair&#8217;s brave support for the ouster of Saddam and the war against Islamofascist terror, this is the first British election I can remember in which I, an unrepentant Thatcherite, would likely vote Labour.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> If you spot any more, let me know &#8211; I simply love the idea of a bunch of people who would have been calling Blair a Communist if they&#8217;d been aware of him twenty years ago suddenly thinking he&#8217;s a hero&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, for any dear readers from across the Channel, I&#8217;d be grateful if you could point me in the direction of any interesting opinion pieces (blog or otherwise) from the European continental press &#8211; I&#8217;m keen to get an idea of how this little bit of democracy is going down overseas. Either email me on my nosemonkey AT gmail.com address, or whack a link in the comments, or get in touch with the team at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalelection05.com\/blog\/\">General Election Blog<\/a> at generalelection@gmail.com. Ta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A re-edited splice of a couple of posts of mine from the General Election Blog: The Times has now launched its own election blog. Considering the current confusion about which way Times owner Rupert Murdoch will swing, it could prove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/more-election-nonsense\/\">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-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}