{"id":3212,"date":"2002-11-06T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T10:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2002-11-06T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T10:37:43","slug":"more-politics-patrick-wintour-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/11\/06\/more-politics-patrick-wintour-on\/","title":{"rendered":"More politics&#8230;. Patrick Wintour on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More politics&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/conservatives\/story\/0,9061,834423,00.html\" target=_blank\" title=\"Guardian\">Patrick Wintour on the Conservative Party&#8217;s past and future<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/conservatives\/comment\/0,9236,834313,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian\">Ed Vaizey emplores the party to stop fighting<\/a>, although I&#8217;m not sure about his statement that IDS has embraced social liberalism. If this is the case, why on earth impose a three line whip over the adoption bill?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2002\/11\/06\/dl0601.xml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Telegraph\">Telegraph opinion implores MPs to back IDS<\/a> and warns that to fail to do so will result in death of Conservative Party by 2025.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2002\/11\/06\/do0602.xml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Telegraph\">Slightly barmy article by Janet Daley<\/a> which raises some good issues (poor party management, definition of &quot;nice&quot; and &quot;nasty&quot; and wondering what exactly is IDS&#8217;s direction) as well as a few simply strange ideas (suggesting the gay community were driving the argument &#8211; muh? Ken Clarke is not well known as a gay rights activist!).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-471047,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Times\">Ben Macintyre looks at IDS&#8217;s psychology &#8211; &quot;IDS&#8217;s desperate day was desperately weird&quot;<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2408255.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC\">Mrs T: the Tories will never die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/images\/matt061102.gif\" alt=\"Matt\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More politics&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}