{"id":49,"date":"2007-06-01T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-25T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T13:12:13","slug":"mp-steals-disabled-car-parking-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"MP Steals Disabled Car Parking Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6708939.stm\">Member of Parliament<\/a> named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/anthony_steen\/totnes\">Anthony Steen<\/a> has hit the news headlines for leaving his car in a disabled parking bay for <em>three days<\/em>. He has come out with some sort of excuse for this blaming disabled people somehow. Probably not quite like that, but I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>Come out with some genuine argument about how there are too many disabled parking bays and I might pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>But pay attention to some drongo who came out with some sort of argument <em>after<\/em> he has been caught parking illegally ? Not a chance. This is an example of behaviour that gives politicians a bad name. He&#8217;d be far better off by saying &#8220;Oops! I shouldn&#8217;t have done that&#8221;, paid his parking fine, and keep his mouth shut about any criticism of disabled parking.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough he&#8217;s a member of the political party that used to bang on so much about their being the party of &#8220;law and order&#8221;. Breaking the parking laws is funny sort of behaviour for an MP from that party isn&#8217;t it ?<\/p>\n<p>I guess this little rant makes me one of those &#8220;whingers and whiners&#8221; that he&#8217;s now going on about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nA UK <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6708939.stm\">Member of Parliament<\/a> named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/anthony_steen\/totnes\">Anthony Steen<\/a> has hit the news headlines for leaving his car in a disabled parking bay for <em>three days<\/em>. He has come out with some sort of excuse for this blaming disabled people somehow. Probably not quite like that, but I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>\nCome out with some genuine argument about how there are too many disabled parking bays and I might pay attention.<\/p>\n<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":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-7-id","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-N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}