{"id":558,"date":"2010-02-08T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:33:15","slug":"558","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cameron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today he was having a go at Brown for being soft on expenses or doing u-turns or something. There really is no mileage in this. Voters regard all parties equally to blame and equally guilty. The voters will not buy into an idea that the Tories are better than Labour on expenses, although because Labour is in power, it has <em>de facto <\/em>more to defend. This is useful to the Tories but to\u00a0raise a campaign\u00a0issue of it makes Cameron look rather tacky. This is what you call a silent advantage; make a noise and it plays against you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tory High Command, beginning to look ever more mud splattered and\u00a0out of its depth,\u00a0needs to understand that the public pay little account of the fact that the money is being paid back. As far as voters are concerned when\u00a0MPs of all parties\u00a0had the opportunity to get their hands in the till unseen, they took the cash. They remember also\u00a0that the outlandish moats and duck houses were Tory must haves at public expense. Oh and that\u00a0wisteria too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Cameron Today he was having a go at Brown for being soft on expenses or doing u-turns or something. There really is no mileage in this. Voters regard all parties equally to blame and equally guilty. The voters will not buy into an idea that the Tories are better than Labour on expenses, although [&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-558","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\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}