{"id":2722,"date":"2013-02-05T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2013-02-05T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:23:35","slug":"the-tories-splinter-over-gay-marriage-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"The Tories Splinter Over Gay Marriage Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve seen in the last few minutes that as expected a whole bunch of Tories have voted against the proposal to legalise gay marriage. Frankly nobody expected the &#8220;hang &#8217;em high and whip &#8217;em&#8221; branch of the Tories to vote\u00a0<em>for<\/em> gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the media and the anti-Tories are gleefully announcing that the Tories are split down the middle and that this might just be the beginning of the end. Of what I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Much as I would like to see the Tories self-destruct, it is very unlikely to happen. This was a\u00a0<em>free<\/em> vote &#8211; where MPs were encouraged to vote with the conscience rather than according to the party whip. Whilst it is entirely possible that a party who wants to get something through that will be unpopular with their own members, will resort to a free vote, it is a move to be encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it would be nice to see MPs\u00a0<em>always<\/em> voting with their conscience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve seen in the last few minutes that as expected a whole bunch of Tories have voted against the proposal to legalise gay marriage. Frankly nobody expected the &#8220;hang &#8217;em high and whip &#8217;em&#8221; branch of the Tories to vote\u00a0for gay marriage. Of course the media and the anti-Tories are gleefully announcing that the <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2722' 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_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},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,1060,176,30],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservative","tag-gay-marriage","tag-tory","tag-uk","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-HU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}