{"id":16,"date":"2005-09-22T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:18:31","slug":"thank-god-for-the-lib-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Thank God for the Lib Dems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well done to Charles Kennedy for coming out with the stunning revelation that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4269622.stm\">&quot;Blair is costing lives&quot;<\/a>. At last a British politician has done some plain speaking that attacks Bush&#039;s preposterous &quot;War On Terror&quot;. He also makes the connection between the invasion and an increase in the threat of terrorism &#8211; a widely held view that Blair is belligerently refusing to accept. Kennedy should be applauded for making such a stance, but the guy&#039;s a twit so I&#039;m not going to. Maybe that&#039;s a bit harsh, after all he&#039;s in charge of a party full of twits &#8211; despite having some of the most sensible and honest policies in the UK. Shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done to Charles Kennedy for coming out with the stunning revelation that &quot;Blair is costing lives&quot;. At last a British politician has done some plain speaking that attacks Bush&#039;s preposterous &quot;War On Terror&quot;. He also makes the connection between the invasion and an increase in the threat of terrorism &#8211; a widely held view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}