{"id":312,"date":"2019-12-13T05:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T05:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2019-12-13T05:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T05:58:40","slug":"the-turkeys-have-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-turkeys-have-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"The turkeys have voted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m with Lily in the overall emotional thinking about the election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-metro\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"M5pqfKVfLV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/12\/13\/lily-allen-blasts-tory-supporters-voted-kids-die-no-healthcare-11879217\/\">Lily Allen blasts Tory supporters who voted for &#8216;kids to die with no healthcare&#8217;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Lily Allen blasts Tory supporters who voted for &#8216;kids to die with no healthcare&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Metro\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/12\/13\/lily-allen-blasts-tory-supporters-voted-kids-die-no-healthcare-11879217\/embed\/#?secret=M5pqfKVfLV\" data-secret=\"M5pqfKVfLV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brexit will now happen, and I don\u2019t believe those who voted Conservative fully understand the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I\u2019m numb. My immediate work colleagues and others I know are liberal, and it gave me hope that voting would reflect that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that the country is supporting anti-immigration, anti-NHS and many other negatively social policies suggests strongly that this was the \u201cme first\u201d style voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot see that history will see this as anything other than Little Britain leading to the eventual dissolution of the United Kingdom. Why say that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinn Fein took a key DUP seat, which shows how Ireland feels about Boris\u2019 deal. Thin end of the reuniting edge for Ireland. The strength of vote for the SNP is another indicator of the regional perspective on what was ultimately a white English-driven view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump, Johnson and who\u2019s next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The right-wing lead a terrible period of human history in the 20th century. Let\u2019s hope this is not the prelude to an equivalent in the 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone else now ready to emigrate to the moon or Mars? Count me in. I want nothing to do with the humans who clearly feel no passion for others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m with Lily in the overall emotional thinking about the election results. Brexit will now happen, and I don\u2019t believe those who voted Conservative fully understand the consequences. Personally I\u2019m numb. My immediate work colleagues and others I know are liberal, and it gave me hope that voting would reflect that. The fact that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-turkeys-have-voted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The turkeys have voted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}