{"id":10563,"date":"2016-07-12T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T10:21:10","slug":"a-tale-of-two-parties-part-one-the-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10563","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Parties: Part One: The Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the referendum campaign advanced there were four Tory\u00a0leadership contenders\u00a0striding the field of battle. \u00a0Johnson, Gove, the\u00a0up and coming Leadsom and Cameron. \u00a0All are gone or going. The two giants among them were\u00a0 Boris and Cameron. Everyone thought that Boris\u00a0would soon be Prime Minister especially camp Boris. First Cameron went down,\u00a0followed by Johnson the mega shock, then the others. In the shadows lurked May. Pro Remain but with reservations, she was invisible during the campaign and the Tory civil war. Tomorrow she will be Prime Minister. The forensic efficiency of the self styled natural party of government,\u00a0with its cunning system of daggers wielded without compassion and a ruthless will to hold onto power, astonishes not only the country, but the world. Even the most autocratic dictatorships with their terrifying security apparatus watch gobsmacked and in awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the referendum campaign advanced there were four Tory\u00a0leadership contenders\u00a0striding the field of battle. \u00a0Johnson, Gove, the\u00a0up and coming Leadsom and Cameron. \u00a0All are gone or going. The two giants among them were\u00a0 Boris and Cameron. Everyone thought that Boris\u00a0would soon be Prime Minister especially camp Boris. First Cameron went down,\u00a0followed by Johnson the mega [&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-10563","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\/10563","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=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}