{"id":323,"date":"2007-04-02T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=323"},"modified":"2007-04-02T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:37:00","slug":"the-knives-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-knives-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The knives are out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/000717540X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/000717540X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>There are some deliciously evil articles about Gordon Brown in the English newspapers today, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/comment.independent.co.uk\/columnists_a_l\/bruce_anderson\/article2412723.ece\">This one<\/a> in The Independent: &#8220;&#8230; Tom Bower&#8217;s book (if every voter read it, Gordon Brown would be lucky to win election as a dog-catcher in Kirkcaldy).&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/william_rees_mogg\/article1599770.ece\">This one<\/a> in The Times: &#8220;&#8230; tens if not hundreds of thousands are likely to have imposed on them an old age of poverty.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/04\/02\/npension102.xml\">This one<\/a> in The Telegraph: &#8220;For all his intellectual pretensions, Mr Brown is a flim-flam man &#8211; and the voters now know that.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given how little sympathy I have for Gordon Brown, I&#8217;ve been reading this with great glee.  I just hope it&#8217;s not too late to prevent the disaster that a Brown government would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some deliciously evil articles about Gordon Brown in the English newspapers today, including: This one in The Independent: &#8220;&#8230; Tom Bower&#8217;s book (if every voter read it, Gordon Brown would be lucky to win election as a dog-catcher in Kirkcaldy).&#8221; This one in The Times: &#8220;&#8230; tens if not hundreds of thousands are likely to have imposed on them an old age of poverty.&#8221; This one in The Telegraph: &#8220;For all his intellectual pretensions, Mr Brown is a flim-flam man &#8211; and the voters now [&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-323","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\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}