{"id":11861,"date":"2017-03-16T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T10:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2017-03-16T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:59:53","slug":"tories-the-sleaze-party-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11861","title":{"rendered":"Tories : The Sleaze Party Returns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May is not having a good week. It now turns out that gross violations of funding rules were broken by the Tory party in its 2015 battles in key marginals. The police are involved, in addition to the record fine by the Electoral Commission. However, the real issue is whether in these affected marginal seats a re-run will be required.<\/p>\n<p>For example it is now clear that Farage would have won Thanet\u00a0South without the intervention of these expensive, \u00a318000 apparently, Tory bus-ins of \u00a0activists\u00a0from outside the area.\u00a0This all means that the Cameron\u00a0won in 2015 by fraudulent means. Quite shocking. There is no point in warning about Russian hackers when the real threat to the integrity of our democracy comes from cheats in the political parties we are supposed to trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is not having a good week. It now turns out that gross violations of funding rules were broken by the Tory party in its 2015 battles in key marginals. The police are involved, in addition to the record fine by the Electoral Commission. However, the real issue is whether in these affected marginal seats [&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-11861","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\/11861","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=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11865,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}