{"id":936,"date":"2005-11-21T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/21\/even-a-stopped-clock-tells-the-right-time-twice-a-day\/"},"modified":"2005-11-21T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:02:00","slug":"even-a-stopped-clock-tells-the-right-time-twice-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/even-a-stopped-clock-tells-the-right-time-twice-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha ha ha! <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/eu\/story\/0,9061,1647534,00.html\">More EU budget negotiation nonsense from the government<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8221;We are in no way underestimating the difficulties of doing a deal, but equally nobody should underestimate our determination to try to see if a deal is possible&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translated, that roughly means that they&#8217;ve given up on sorting the budget entirely.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that for once Blair was entirely right when he said that the EU was facing <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4122288.stm\">&#8220;not a crisis of political institutions, [but] a crisis of political leadership&#8221;<\/a> back in June. After all, that quote comes from a speech made just a week before he took over the EU presidency. Based on his &#8220;achievements&#8221; over the last five months, if this hasn&#8217;t been a crisis of political leadership, nothing has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha ha ha! More EU budget negotiation nonsense from the government: &#8220;&#8221;We are in no way underestimating the difficulties of doing a deal, but equally nobody should underestimate our determination to try to see if a deal is possible&#8221; Translated, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/even-a-stopped-clock-tells-the-right-time-twice-a-day\/\">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-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}