{"id":1508,"date":"2005-04-15T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T00:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2005-04-15T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T00:38:58","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with this country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did I find myself <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalsurvey2005.com\/survey\/CFGBGBEFCHADABEDCDABABDBDEBBDADEDDDEABDBED\">here?<\/a> I think of myself, if I have any political home, as a sort of realistic leftish conservative. All my serious arguments for voting agaist T Blair are conservative ones, about the preservation and maintenance of standards &#8212; you should not subvert democracy by drawing us into war on a lie; nor should you introduce a corrupt system of postal votes. These don&#8217;t seem to me particularly socialist positions. But, if <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalsurvey2005.com\/\">this survey<\/a> is accurate, I am wildly to the left of even most Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is chiefly because of my views on prison and foreigners, which are almost the last things that I would give up as I grow older and my brain softens. So perhaps the great divide in British society has to do with views of outsiders.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I find myself here? I think of myself, if I have any political home, as a sort of realistic leftish conservative. All my serious arguments for voting agaist T Blair are conservative ones, about the preservation and maintenance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}