{"id":2199,"date":"2010-03-10T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2010-03-10T22:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:47:27","slug":"the-inevitable-election-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-inevitable-election-date\/","title":{"rendered":"The inevitable election date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gwen\/140945986\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/44\/140945986_e6f68bc1ed_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gwen\/140945986\/\">ZAP! dance party @ Golden Bull Saturday May 6<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/gwen\/\">gwen<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>The media today agree it is now inevitable that the general election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/election-2010\/7412161\/General-election-on-May-6-practically-inevitable.html\">will take place on 6&nbsp;May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not convinced.<\/p>\n<p>It could well be that Brown thinks he&#8217;s going to go for the 6th, but when he has to make the announcement in April, he&#8217;ll check the opinion polls, and what will the Great Ditherer do if they&#8217;re going against him again?  Go for the planned date or postpone it for another month in the hope that things will be better then?<\/p>\n<p>I have put <a href=\"http:\/\/politicszone.betfair.com\/zone\">good money<\/a> on a June election, and all the budget date has told me is that the election won&#8217;t take place in March or early April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAP! dance party @ Golden Bull Saturday May 6 Originally uploaded by gwen The media today agree it is now inevitable that the general election will take place on 6&nbsp;May. I&#8217;m not convinced. It could well be that Brown thinks he&#8217;s going to go for the 6th, but when he has to make the announcement in April, he&#8217;ll check the opinion polls, and what will the Great Ditherer do if they&#8217;re going against him again? Go for the planned date or postpone it for another month in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}