{"id":423,"date":"2010-04-19T10:21:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=423"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:21:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:21:55","slug":"three-party-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Three party politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only three weeks to go before the General Election, I suppose comments like <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/election_2010\/8628765.stm\">these<\/a> are to be expected.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDavid Cameron has warned a vote for Nick Clegg could leave Britain &#8220;stuck&#8221; with Labour and said only the Tories can bring &#8220;real change&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor Labour Lord Mandelson warned a hung parliament might give &#8220;disproportionate power&#8221; to the Lib Dems.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how they think comments like this are received by the populace?  Personally I find it sad that our politics have sunk to this kind of gutter level but at the same time I like having a third spoke in the Labour\/Tory wheel.  Labour have been in power for the last 13 years and the Tories were there for 13 years before that.  Even if the Lib Dems don&#8217;t make it to power, they&#8217;re certainly succeeding in putting a bee in the bonnet of the political dinosaurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only three weeks to go before the General Election, I suppose comments like these are to be expected. David Cameron has warned a vote for Nick Clegg could leave Britain &#8220;stuck&#8221; with Labour and said only the Tories can bring &#8220;real change&#8221;. For Labour Lord Mandelson warned a hung parliament might give &#8220;disproportionate power&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=423\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three party politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}