{"id":199443,"date":"2007-07-29T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/29\/why-the-lib-dems-are-condemned-to-irrelevance-in-uk-politics\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T04:58:00","slug":"why-the-lib-dems-are-condemned-to-irrelevance-in-uk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/29\/why-the-lib-dems-are-condemned-to-irrelevance-in-uk-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Lib Dems are Condemned to Irrelevance in UK Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is a bit of a problem in Devon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/07\/27\/devon_councillor\/\">three councilors have left the party because another member does stripograms and phone sex as a livelihood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have left the party, and are now sitting as independents because, &#8220;We believe that our integrity and principles will be compromised if we stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the party level, it is reasonable to try to get rid of her because you believe that she will not win re-election or is a drag to the party, but if you are willing to leave the party over this, you are not serious about the party, and most likely, the party just isn&#8217;t that serious either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is a bit of a problem in Devon, three councilors have left the party because another member does stripograms and phone sex as a livelihood. They have left the party, and are now sitting as independents because, &#8220;We believe that our integrity and principles will be compromised if we stay.&#8221; At &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1075,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sex","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199443"}],"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=199443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}