{"id":569,"date":"2005-06-22T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/111944396418334936\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T13:33:00","slug":"111944396418334936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/111944396418334936\/","title":{"rendered":"111944396418334936"},"content":{"rendered":"
The BBC<\/b> – European press review<\/a>. Some interesting stuff today, including:<\/p>\n

“Austria’s Die Presse<\/b> accuses British Prime Minister Tony Blair of misleading the public in his attack on EU agricultural spending…<\/p>\n

“According to the paper, if all public expenditure in the EU is taken into account, agricultural subsidies only account for 1.6%.<\/p>\n

“‘So what is the point of Blair’s naive calculation?’ it asks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, Blair’s calculations are usually anything but naive. He’s a devious bastard – which is why he’s such a good politician. A cock, a man worthy of little or no respect, but a good politician. (That last sentence was a bit of a tautology, wasn’t it?) This is why he may just win the argument this time, despite his figures…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC – European press review. Some interesting stuff today, including: “Austria’s Die Presse accuses British Prime Minister Tony Blair of misleading the public in his attack on EU agricultural spending… “According to the paper, if all public expenditure in … 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-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}