{"id":695,"date":"2005-08-01T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/112289782025844986\/"},"modified":"2005-08-01T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T12:59:00","slug":"112289782025844986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112289782025844986\/","title":{"rendered":"112289782025844986"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Non-news of the day: <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/labour\/story\/0,9061,1540131,00.html\">I&#8217;ll quit Commons at next election, Blair tells family and friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, dur&#8230; Did anyone seriously expect him to do a Ted Heath and loyally serve his constituents from the backbenches for another quarter century? And surviving on a measly MP&#8217;s salary? With his mortgage(s)?<\/p>\n<p>As soon as he announced he was going to quit the leadership it was obvious he&#8217;d be heading to better-paid climes. This is nearly as much of a non-story as those &#8220;terrorists will try and strike again&#8221; ones &#8211; patently fucking obvious if you use your brain for even half a sodding second.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4734339.stm\">Downing Street denies the story<\/a> &#8211; so it MUST be true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4737927.stm\">Ha! Told you it must be true if Downing Street denies it&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-news of the day: I&#8217;ll quit Commons at next election, Blair tells family and friends. Well, dur&#8230; Did anyone seriously expect him to do a Ted Heath and loyally serve his constituents from the backbenches for another quarter century? And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112289782025844986\/\">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-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}