{"id":220,"date":"2009-11-14T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T17:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2009-11-15T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T09:40:06","slug":"220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mr &amp; Mrs Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I really find this hard to believe but it is apparently\u00a0true. Up to \u00a345000 of taxpayers&#8217; money\u00a0is to be spent,\u00a0 much of it\u00a0at Sally Bercow&#8217;s request\u00a0, on tarting up the Speaker&#8217;s flat to make it homely for this curious couple and their children.\u00a0 It is difficult to believe that this reforming Speaker is so utterly insensitive to public anger over the expenses scandal\u00a0or the suffering brought about by the recession, that he happily allows this squandering of public resourses, which even the officials cautioned against.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament is all but running amok. Something needs to be done to put a stop to this cynical, corrupt and rotten assembly.\u00a0 If we had a Constitution it would be a whole lot easier. A few of them are honest and decent and they will survive. The rest will live on solely as names on a grimy list of one of the most contemptible\u00a0parliaments in our history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr &amp; Mrs Speaker I really find this hard to believe but it is apparently\u00a0true. Up to \u00a345000 of taxpayers&#8217; money\u00a0is to be spent,\u00a0 much of it\u00a0at Sally Bercow&#8217;s request\u00a0, on tarting up the Speaker&#8217;s flat to make it homely for this curious couple and their children.\u00a0 It is difficult to believe that this reforming [&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-220","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\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}