{"id":400,"date":"2007-06-21T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=400"},"modified":"2007-06-21T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:43:00","slug":"playing-dirty-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/playing-dirty-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing dirty again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbaileyuk\/406109789\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/133\/406109789_dd65e1a149_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbaileyuk\/406109789\/\">Gordon Brown.JPG<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/willbaileyuk\/\">Will&#8230;<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/martin_kettle\/2007\/06\/game_set_and_match_to_gordon.html\">nice comment<\/a> in The Guardian about how clever Gordon Brown was when he offered cabinet posts to the LibDems.  Basically it&#8217;s argued it was only ever a clever plot, not a sincere offer.<\/p>\n<p>I also like some of the comments, for instance this one: &#8220;This looks like another budget scam. Low-down, dirty, cheap tricks from a man too smug to realise that most people rate fairness and honesty as more important than clever political play.&#8221;<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown.JPG Originally uploaded by Will&#8230; There&#8217;s a nice comment in The Guardian about how clever Gordon Brown was when he offered cabinet posts to the LibDems. Basically it&#8217;s argued it was only ever a clever plot, not a sincere offer. I also like some of the comments, for instance this one: &#8220;This looks like another budget scam. Low-down, dirty, cheap tricks from a man too smug to realise that most people rate fairness and honesty as more important than clever political play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}