{"id":44,"date":"2006-06-29T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-06-29T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:33:05","slug":"politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:748,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theyworkforyou.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:749,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theyworkforyou.com\\\/debates\\\/?id=2006-06-28a.258.3&amp;s=speaker%3A10882#g260.4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060718001445\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.theyworkforyou.com:80\\\/debates\\\/?id=2006-06-28a.258.3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theyworkforyou.com\\\/debates\\\/?id=2006-06-28b.258.3&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#39;ve signed up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\" target=\"_blank\">theyworkforyou.com<\/a> so I can see what our local MP is saying in Parliament. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I&#39;ve met our MP, Paul Farrelly, on a couple of occasions (he even took our Scouts round Parliament once) and he seems to be quite a pleasant chap. He seems to be interested in promoting our area and getting the best for us.<br \/> However, I&#39;ve had an e-mail from theyworkforyou.com telling me he made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debates\/?id=2006-06-28a.258.3&amp;s=speaker%3A10882#g260.4\" target=\"_blank\">this comment<\/a> to Tony Blair &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I report with great sadness to the Prime Minister that, following the local elections and a bit of bed-hopping by the Liberal Democrats, Newcastle-under-Lyme is being temporarily led by the Conservatives. In the past 20-plus years Newcastle has been well served by Labour leaders&mdash;Mike Brereton, Eddie Boden and David Leech&mdash;and I wonder whether, in this novel situation, the Prime Minister can help me out. By which yardsticks would he judge this new, Tory\/Liberal Democrat alliance in my area, however temporary it may be?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> The point of that was what exactly? What a total waste of time saying that to the PM. Political points scoring I suppose.<br \/> Thing is, Labour controlling the Borough Council were a total waste of time. All they seemed interested in was saying how great they were and making a complete pigs ear of the Borough. I just hope the Conservative \/&nbsp; Lib Dem people are better! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve signed up to theyworkforyou.com so I can see what our local MP is saying in Parliament. I&#39;ve met our MP, Paul Farrelly, on a couple of occasions (he even took our Scouts round Parliament once) and he seems to be quite a pleasant chap. He seems to be interested in promoting our area and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=44\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politicians&#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-44","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-I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}