{"id":888,"date":"2009-06-02T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=888"},"modified":"2011-03-02T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:28:37","slug":"the-labour-party-vs-the-bfg9000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/06\/the-labour-party-vs-the-bfg9000.html","title":{"rendered":"The Labour Party vs the BFG9000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election for members of the European parliament is on this weekend, so I&#8217;ve been getting a motley assortment of pamphlets shoved into my letterbox.  I&#8217;ve had one from the racist loonies in the BNP, the not-so-racist-but-still-pretty-loony Ukip (apparently that&#8217;s how you spell their name), Christian loonies, and the authoritarian control-freak loonies in the Labour Party, who tried to disguise their pamphlet as a community newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Headlined &#8220;Action on Crime&#8221;, the blurb boasts about Labour MEPs voting to &#8220;ban the import of replica weapons which can all too easily be converted into working firearms&#8221;.  The accompanying photo shows police posed next to one of the frighteningly realistic weapons which hoodlums have been concealing on their persons while terrorising London&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cookylamoo\/3590060025\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/labor_mep_01a.jpg\" title=\"Gun enhanced to show texture.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election for members of the European parliament is on this weekend, so I&#8217;ve been getting a motley assortment of pamphlets shoved into my letterbox. I&#8217;ve had one from the racist loonies in the BNP, the not-so-racist-but-still-pretty-loony Ukip (apparently that&#8217;s how you spell their name), Christian loonies, and the authoritarian control-freak loonies in the Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}