{"id":22910,"date":"2017-05-01T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=22910"},"modified":"2017-05-01T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:23:40","slug":"guardian-comments-on-the-coming-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=22910","title":{"rendered":"Guardian comments on the coming election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so good I&#8217;m copying from the Guardian with a link to the full article &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great turning points in terms of UK General Elections were 1945 and 1979. The Attlee victory in 1945 ushered in a new era of public ownership and state intervention as the UK sought to rebuild the nation after a decade and a half of war and depression. The country was shattered, exhausted, its economy broken, its infrastructure in tatters. Workers were in no mood to return to the pre-war days of the 1930&#8217;s and were demanding a better deal, a land fit for heroes. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/apr\/30\/the-guardian-view-on-the-1997-labour-landslide-not-what-it-seemed#comment-97613955\">read on<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with every word of it and encourage anybody thinking of voting Tory to think again. John Crace already calls May Kim-Jong-May and for good reason. She decided on an election the day after Erdogan won his narrow victory in Turkey. Coincidence or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so good I&#8217;m copying from the Guardian with a link to the full article &#8230; The great turning points in terms of UK General Elections were 1945 and 1979. The Attlee victory in 1945 ushered in a new era of public ownership and state intervention as the UK sought to rebuild the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}