{"id":932,"date":"2004-11-28T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/11\/blunkett\/"},"modified":"2004-11-28T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T19:43:35","slug":"blunkett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/blunkett\/","title":{"rendered":"Blunkett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more you hear about David Blunkett, the more there is do dislike. I&#8217;ve not really paid any attention up and until now to what he&#8217;s done in his private life, but the fact is that it&#8217;s very messy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4049727.stm\">too messy<\/a> for a Home Secretary, many would argue.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know if he did or didn&#8217;t fast track a visa for his lover&#8217;s nanny, but the fact of the matter is that it&#8217;s not exactly edifying.<br \/>\nThis is the man who wants to turn us into a police state. He can expect much more investigation into his alleged wrongdoings. And that&#8217;s fair enough in my view, since his ID card scheme and more importantly, the massive database that will underlie it, will make other people lose their privacy in a very similar manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more you hear about David Blunkett, the more there is do dislike. I&#8217;ve not really paid any attention up and until now to what he&#8217;s done in his private life, but the fact is that it&#8217;s very messy &#8211; too messy for a Home Secretary, many would argue. I don&#8217;t know if he did [&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\/932"}],"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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}