{"id":173,"date":"2007-10-06T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=173"},"modified":"2007-10-10T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T12:28:49","slug":"no-autumn-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"No Autumn General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:695,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/uk_politics\\\/7031749.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/politics\\\/7031749.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The PM has said <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7031749.stm\" target=\"_blank\">no to an autumn general election<\/a> . Lightweight!<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8211;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;Over the summer months we&#39;ve had to deal with crises, we&#39;ve had to deal with foot-and-mouth, with terrorism, with floods, we had financial crises.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;Yes, we could have had an election on competence and I hope people would have understood we have acted competently, but what I want to do is show people the vision we have for the future of this country in housing, health and education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;And I want the chance in the next phase of my premiership to develop and show people the policies that are going to make a huge difference and make a change in the whole country itself,&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Which translated means &#39;I&#39;ve got the job I&#39;ve waited 10 years for and no one is going to take it from me. No election until I absolutely must&#39;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/editormonkey\/tinymce\/plugins\/emotions\/images\/smiley-frown.gif\" alt=\"Frown\" title=\"Frown\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PM has said no to an autumn general election . Lightweight! He said &#8211;&nbsp; &quot;Over the summer months we&#39;ve had to deal with crises, we&#39;ve had to deal with foot-and-mouth, with terrorism, with floods, we had financial crises. &quot;Yes, we could have had an election on competence and I hope people would have understood &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Autumn General Election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-2N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}