{"id":69,"date":"2006-09-24T13:49:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-09-25T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T12:54:01","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">I&#39;ve been thinking how it would be interesting to become a Councillor on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Borough Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The only problem is that I don&#39;t want to become involved in Party Politics. There seems to be too much squabbling going on and a lack of cooperation between the Councillors because they are in one party or another &#8211; Labour seem particularly bad at this at the moment!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:747,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260406134412\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 22:56:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-09 00:35:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-15 02:44:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-27 21:32:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-04 08:47:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 08:24:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 19:20:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 19:20:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been thinking how it would be interesting to become a Councillor on our Borough Council. The only problem is that I don&#39;t want to become involved in Party Politics. There seems to be too much squabbling going on and a lack of cooperation between the Councillors because they are in one party or another &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=69\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","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\/saTxP-politics","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}