{"id":145,"date":"2006-03-27T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-03-27T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:59:04","slug":"the-patron-saint-of-the-vaguely-tainted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"The Patron Saint of the Faintly Tainted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a title=\"He Who Shall Remain Worthless\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.co.uk\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=uk&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=blair+lords+loans&amp;btnG=Search+News\">The Glorious Benefactor<\/a> finally wants to complete the reform the House of Lords in order that cloven-foot-&amp;-mouth snakeoil salesmen like himself cannot use their business contacts to fill the Upper Chamber with supine cronies.<br \/>\nWhilst he may pretend that he has been committed to full reform for some time, it is <a title=\"fillibustering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22the+unelected+chamber%22+%22will+of+the+people%22&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=\">demonstrable<\/a> that his regime has been using the &#8216;unelected representatives&#8217; as a handy stick for threatening <a title=\"Parliament Act google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=%22invoke+the+Parliament+Act%22+terrorism&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=\">the use of the Parliament Act<\/a> in order to push through his<a title=\"ID cards google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=%22invoke+the+Parliament+Act%22+%22id+cards%22&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=\"> treacherous legislation<\/a>. Like all the other reforms related to Parliamentary procedures he only shows interest when his personal position is <a title=\"do you rember the first time?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=%22Bernie+Ecclestone%22+donation&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=\">questioned<\/a> and will no doubt only look at proposals as far as this is secured, or tread water until he resigns.<\/p>\n<p>Rant Over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add &#8216;badly painted&#8217; picture:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Politics\/Pix\/pictures\/2003\/10\/01\/Blair1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently The Glorious Benefactor finally wants to complete the reform the House of Lords in order that cloven-foot-&amp;-mouth snakeoil salesmen like himself cannot use their business contacts to fill the Upper Chamber with supine cronies. Whilst he may pretend that he has been committed to full reform for some time, it is demonstrable that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}