{"id":922,"date":"2005-11-17T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/politics-is-boring\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:14:00","slug":"politics-is-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/politics-is-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics is boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today MEPs are voting on a vast array of chemicals legislation, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu.int\/comm\/environment\/chemicals\/reach.htm\">REACH<\/a>&#8221; (acronym of &#8220;Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>If you thought that in itself couldn&#8217;t get more tedious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.eu.int\/news\/public\/story_page\/052-2124-314-11-45-909-20051109STO02123-2005-10-11-2005\/default_en.htm\">spare a thought for the poor MEPs<\/a> (most of whom wouldn&#8217;t know a chemical if it bit them in the face) who have to try and get their heads around the thing and vote on it &#8211; after whittling down more than 5,000 proposed amandments in 10 different committees, they have to reach decisions on the still more than 500 that remain.<\/p>\n<p>See? It&#8217;s not all exciting and headline-grabbing arguments about terrorism and civil liberties. Politics (and perhaps especially politics in the European Parliament) is mostly incredibly dull.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you&#8217;re REALLY keen on finding out more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-117452-16&amp;type=LinksDossier\">EurActiv has a good roundup<\/a> of the various complexities of the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today MEPs are voting on a vast array of chemicals legislation, &#8220;REACH&#8221; (acronym of &#8220;Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals&#8221;). If you thought that in itself couldn&#8217;t get more tedious, spare a thought for the poor MEPs (most of whom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/politics-is-boring\/\">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-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}