{"id":463,"date":"2005-11-10T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/10\/dear-tony-blair\/"},"modified":"2005-11-10T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T16:23:25","slug":"dear-tony-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/dear-tony-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Tony Blair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if the public and yourself are so out of touch with each other in a democracy then maybe you shouldn&#8217;t be the leader? I&#8217;d like to point out two things. Firstly, your Government and the House of Commons is meant to be a representative of our opinion to Elizabeth Windsor. If we all shout &#8220;This is a bad idea&#8221; you&#8217;re supposed to listen. Secondly, if your MP&#8217;s were slavishly following public opinion, then your vote to go to war in Iraq would not have cleared the House of Commons and we might not be such a highly visible target.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4423678.stm\">BBC News &#8211; Blair Says MPs Are Out Of Touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if the public and yourself are so out of touch with each other in a democracy then maybe you shouldn&#8217;t be the leader? I&#8217;d like to point out two things. Firstly, your Government and the House of Commons is meant to be a representative of our opinion to Elizabeth Windsor. If we all shout &#8220;This is a bad idea&#8221; you&#8217;re supposed to listen. Secondly, if your MP&#8217;s were slavishly following public opinion, then your vote to go to war in Iraq would not have cleared the House of Commons and we might not be such a highly visible target. Link:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-7t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}