{"id":433,"date":"2003-09-18T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/cabinet_split_o\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T11:01:11","slug":"cabinet_split_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/cabinet_split_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet Split Over ID Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian carries a <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/homeaffairs\/story\/0,11026,1044261,00.html\">report<\/a> this morning about the cabinet being split over the introduction of ID Cards. No need to explain again where I stand on the issue.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know quite what to make of all this. Gordon Brown doesn&#8217;t want the treasury to pay for it, but the alternative seems to be to get every member of the public pay &pound;40 for the privilege.<br \/>\nThe there&#8217;s the suggestion that in the <i>all new<\/i>&trade; Labour government, the cabinet are going to get more say about policy &#8211; so not just TB and his mates then? Could this be the first piece of policy to go by the wayside as a result of this new found openness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian carries a report this morning about the cabinet being split over the introduction of ID Cards. No need to explain again where I stand on the issue. I don&#8217;t know quite what to make of all this. Gordon Brown doesn&#8217;t want the treasury to pay for it, but the alternative seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}