{"id":2100,"date":"2011-12-18T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T09:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2011-12-18T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T12:27:12","slug":"is-the-aidan-burley-sacking-going-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"Is The Aidan Burley Sacking Going Too Far ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now as you may have guessed by now, I&#8217;m hardly the Tories biggest fan; on hearing the news this morning of a Tory getting caught doing something\u00a0embarrassing, I couldn&#8217;t help but give a nasty smirk. It is always a bright start to the day when the Tory party is caught out demonstrating beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are the party of the \u00fcber-rich which only gives lip-service to the middle-classes and has nothing but contempt for the working-class.<\/p>\n<p>And running around dressed up as a member of the Nazi party is no joke &#8211; which is why certain foolish young people do it of course. Running around offending the sensibilities of their parent&#8217;s and grandparent&#8217;s generations is one of the all but\u00a0irresistible pleasures of youth. These things go too far sometimes &#8211; it&#8217;s all very well running through the centre of a town naked, but dressing up as a member of the Nazi party is a step too far.<\/p>\n<p>But Aidan was merely at a party where the offensive actions took place &#8211; he didn&#8217;t himself dress up as a Nazi, and it is not claimed that he did anything offensive himself. If you lined up all of the people who have <em>ever<\/em>\u00a0been at a party where <em>someone<\/em> has done something incredibly foolish and offensive, then not many of us would not be lined up &#8211; and one suspects that most MPs would be in the queue trying to look inconspicuous.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now as you may have guessed by now, I&#8217;m hardly the Tories biggest fan; on hearing the news this morning of a Tory getting caught doing something\u00a0embarrassing, I couldn&#8217;t help but give a nasty smirk. It is always a bright start to the day when the Tory party is caught out demonstrating beyond any shadow <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2100' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[913,508,176],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-aidan-burley","tag-nazi","tag-tory","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-xS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}