{"id":964,"date":"2009-11-23T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:24:11","slug":"a-disgrace-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/964","title":{"rendered":"A Disgrace to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is looking likely that at the next general election, whenever it is called but certainly before next June, that the current government will be deposed and Her Majesty&#8217;s Loyal Opposition will take over. It is therefore with dismay that I heard this offensive speech from a member who is likely to become a minister under that administration. I refer to a passage in which <strong>Michael Grove<\/strong>, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, managed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debate\/?id=2009-11-19a.158.3\">one short paragraph<\/a> (last paragraph) to offend a member of the public not associated with the debate and also to indulge in a form of humour which may be mildly amusing in a playground. Perhaps that is why his brief is for schools. Of course we knew what to expect when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debate\/?id=2009-11-19a.156.0\">here<\/a> he made a &#8220;joke&#8221; on the Secretary of State&#8217;s name&mdash;the lowest form of wit by any standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is looking likely that at the next general election, whenever it is called but certainly before next June, that the current government will be deposed and Her Majesty&#8217;s Loyal Opposition will take over. It is therefore with dismay that I heard this offensive speech from a member who is likely to become a minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}