{"id":97,"date":"2004-09-22T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/22\/everyone-hates-the-ukip\/"},"modified":"2004-09-22T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T14:50:18","slug":"everyone-hates-the-ukip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/everyone-hates-the-ukip\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone hates the UKIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my continuing trawl of blog type things, I happened across <a href=\"http:\/\/eureferendum.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/ouch.html\">this<\/a> little entry from a eurosceptic blog I noticed a while back. Sounds like the UKIP MEPs are (surprise, surprise) a bunch of thugs. However,<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Strangely, although there were journalists present, nothing of the fracas reached the pages of the UK national press. Nor was there any report published of Kilroy-Silk&#8217;s campaigning speech in Hartlepool last Saturday, even though the venue was well attended by &#8220;Fleet Street&#8217;s finest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Described as &#8220;overtly racist&#8221; by one observer, one wonders why more was not made of it.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My own views of Kilroy have <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/robert-kilroy-silk-twat.html\">already been aired<\/a>. The guy is not charming, intelligent or amusing, he&#8217;s a tit. As are the rest of the populace of his sorry party. It started off as a fairly respectable, if misguided, coalition &#8211; now it is <a href=\"http:\/\/ukipuncovered.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/whats-happened-to-ukip-meps-we-have.html\">just a joke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;the UKIP MEPs are regarded as &#8220;English buffoons&#8221; in the European parliament, a bunch of clowns who do not have the first idea of what they are doing&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my continuing trawl of blog type things, I happened across this little entry from a eurosceptic blog I noticed a while back. Sounds like the UKIP MEPs are (surprise, surprise) a bunch of thugs. However, &#8220;Strangely, although there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/everyone-hates-the-ukip\/\">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-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}