{"id":508,"date":"2005-05-25T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/blair-government-in-were-a-bunch-of-abject-bastards-who-dont-give-a-shit-about-you-or-your-stupid-so-called-concerns-non-shocker\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T09:57:00","slug":"blair-government-in-were-a-bunch-of-abject-bastards-who-dont-give-a-shit-about-you-or-your-stupid-so-called-concerns-non-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/blair-government-in-were-a-bunch-of-abject-bastards-who-dont-give-a-shit-about-you-or-your-stupid-so-called-concerns-non-shocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair government in “we’re a bunch of abject bastards who don’t give a shit about you or your stupid so-called concerns” non-shocker!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ID cards are back today<\/a>. 12pm sees the launch of the “new” bill. Grrr…<\/a> More later, if I get a chance.<\/p>\n

And, in other news, they’ve gone and made John “fuck off or I’ll twat you” Prescott head of the cabinet committee on electoral policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Mr Prescott has made it clear to colleagues that there is no question of reviving PR for parliamentary elections.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, and:<\/p>\n

“In another decision that signals his opposition to PR, Mr Blair formally abolish[ed] the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), he set up with the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown as a vehicle to discuss PR. The scrapping of the JCC slammed the door on the prospect of Labour-Liberal Democrat talks on voting reform and sent a powerful signal that relations between Labour and the Liberal Democrats have hit a new low. Mr Prescott has told colleagues: ‘That’s all dead now.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Grrrr…<\/a> More on that later too, if I get a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ID cards are back today. 12pm sees the launch of the “new” bill. Grrr… More later, if I get a chance. And, in other news, they’ve gone and made John “fuck off or I’ll twat you” Prescott head of the … 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-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}