{"id":22936,"date":"2017-05-13T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=22936"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:34:34","slug":"bankers-and-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=22936","title":{"rendered":"Some election thoughts 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheFarLeft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22939 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheFarLeft_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How the media distort Left and Right<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/pic\/BankersInvert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19519 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bankers_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted this somewhere else some time back and today I found it again and it seems relevant so I&#8217;m reposting it again despite the fact that it&#8217;s May in the firing line now and not Blair. But the reasons still apply.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>On Brexit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/VoteLeave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/VoteLeave_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are only two tragedies in life\u00a0&#8211; one is not getting what you want &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>On Trident<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=YQcnkYVO1ccC&amp;pg=PA127&amp;lpg=PA127&amp;dq=Our+Trident+submarines+could+never+fire+their+missiles+independently&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=TuqQSqbYrZ&amp;sig=JDARnDP67KrCi96acMeMvnnvdEY&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjK5tntmu3TAhXnJMAKHT_FDpcQ6AEISDAF#v=onepage&amp;q=Our%20Trident%20submarines%20could%20never%20fire%20their%20missiles%20independently&amp;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trident.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gb-volume-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/327077\/global-village-idiot-by-john-ofarrell\/9780552999649\">Global Village Idiot &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"addmd\">By John O&#8217;Farrell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"gb-volume-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>My finest hour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"gb-volume-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/mar\/22\/snp-tartan-labour-election-scotland#comment-49303838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22956 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/I-think-I-love-you_th.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"gb-volume-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>My alter ego Flamingo Wader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"gb-volume-title\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/may\/03\/jeremy-corbyn-bernie-sanders-labour-leader#comment-97812232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23018 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-being-leftwing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUd5p4vzsBo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the media distort Left and Right<\/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-22936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936","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=22936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29586,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936\/revisions\/29586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}