{"id":14849,"date":"2019-02-11T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:17:59","slug":"grayling-should-he-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14849","title":{"rendered":"Grayling: Should He Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when everybody calls for a minister to go, there is a backdrop of scandal or misjudgement over a particular issue. With Chris Grayling it is not one thing but many; an accumulation of disaster and detachment in two Departments, Justice and Transport. In each problems, unresolved, pile up under Grayling\u2019s leadership. So in a proper government in normal times he would have to be shuffled out.<\/p>\n<p>But we are not in normal times. The government is weaker, more divided and more unable to find its way than any British government in modern history. Changing a hapless minister will make little difference. The problem, as everyone can see, is the government itself and sooner or later it, all of it, has to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when everybody calls for a minister to go, there is a backdrop of scandal or misjudgement over a particular issue. With Chris Grayling it is not one thing but many; an accumulation of disaster and detachment in two Departments, Justice and Transport. In each problems, unresolved, pile up under Grayling\u2019s leadership. So in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,4],"class_list":["post-14849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849","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=14849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14850,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions\/14850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}