{"id":10080,"date":"2016-04-07T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10080"},"modified":"2016-04-07T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:58:36","slug":"brexit-thoughts-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10080","title":{"rendered":"Brexit Thoughts 7: Leaflet Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has decided to spend \u00a39 million (to government the expenditure equivalent\u00a0of an ice-cream) on leaflets to be sent to all of us, explaining why we are have having this absurd referendum, what the value of belonging to the EU is and what are the risks of leaving,\u00a0organised into a simple factual format. Very good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leave have gone bananas. That&#8217;s just too bad. If it were not for their endless agitation we would not be wasting the \u00a370 million plus it is costing to stage this drama to help them with their sovereignty phobias, nostalgia for a world long gone and pipe dreams about an idyllic future which\u00a0is just not there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government is backing Britain\u00a0in the EU. It is entirely right and proper that it should set out its case. At least the leaflet\u00a0is not partisan, since most of the shrunken \u00a0Tory \u00a0membership, which is both at an historical low and well past middle age, are for Leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has decided to spend \u00a39 million (to government the expenditure equivalent\u00a0of an ice-cream) on leaflets to be sent to all of us, explaining why we are have having this absurd referendum, what the value of belonging to the EU is and what are the risks of leaving,\u00a0organised into a simple factual format. Very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10080"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}