{"id":2071,"date":"2005-05-05T22:09:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2005-05-05T22:09:37","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T02:09:37","slug":"how-did-those-losers-win-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/how-did-those-losers-win-again\/","title":{"rendered":"how did those losers win again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/election_nite2005.jpg' alt='three heids' \/><br \/>\nIt looks like New Labour are going to win, again. Sigh. I voted for them in &#8217;97 &#8216;cos they appeared to be an alternative to the truly appalling Tories. And for about a year, I thought I&#8217;d made the right choice. But no, they&#8217;re just the Tories, remixed.<\/p>\n<p>I voted Scottish Liberal Democrat. Yes, they didn&#8217;t get in in my constituency. They did take nearby East Dunbartonshire, though.<\/p>\n<p><em>(images from the scary <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/vote_2005\/frontpage\/4498057.stm\">Election Nite Party Pack<\/a>, from the BBC.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like New Labour are going to win, again. Sigh. I voted for them in &#8217;97 &#8216;cos they appeared to be an alternative to the truly appalling Tories. And for about a year, I thought I&#8217;d made the right choice. But no, they&#8217;re just the Tories, remixed. I voted Scottish Liberal Democrat. Yes, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[2],"tags":[930,217],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-election","tag-uk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}