{"id":189309,"date":"2010-04-19T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/19\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-the-lib-dems\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:33:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-the-lib-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/19\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-the-lib-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!?   The Lib-Dems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, following the first televised debate between candidates for Prime Minister in UK history, a confrontation where Liberal-Democrat candidate is generally conceded to have come off best, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/election\/article-1267115\/General-Election-2010-Vote-Nick-Clegg-Gordon-Brown-say-Tories.html\">the party is leading in a number of polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the allure of the Lib-Dems is that their policies are objectively, and quite justifiably, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/robertpeston\/2010\/04\/lib_dems_smaller_bonuses_small.html\">punitive towards the banks that created this mess<\/a>, and they are explicit about the need to downsize the banking sector.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that the Lib-Dems will win, there is 100 years of their predecessor of losing elections, and I think that the nature of the constituencies, which are elected in &#8220;first past the post&#8221; as in the US, make their capturing even 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in the number of seats unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with 3 weeks to go before the election, it is a surprising development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, following the first televised debate between candidates for Prime Minister in UK history, a confrontation where Liberal-Democrat candidate is generally conceded to have come off best, the party is leading in a number of polls. Part of the allure of the Lib-Dems is that their policies are objectively, and quite justifiably, punitive towards the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,984,1091,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-europe","category-polls","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}