{"id":646,"date":"2019-10-21T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=646"},"modified":"2019-10-21T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:31:09","slug":"646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/21\/646\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This parliament is not simply out of touch with public sentiment \u2013 something we already knew from the fact that 70 per cent of MPs, and a staggering 95 per cent of Labour MPs, voted Remain, while 52 per cent of the electorate voted Leave. No, it feels increasingly illegitimate, too. It lacks all political and moral authority. It is a zombie parliament. It has no real democratic mandate to govern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2019\/10\/21\/a-parliamentary-dictatorship\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This parliament is not simply out of touch with public sentiment \u2013 something we already knew from the fact that 70 per cent of MPs, and a staggering 95 per cent of Labour MPs, voted Remain, while 52 per cent of the electorate voted Leave. No, it feels increasingly illegitimate, too. It lacks all political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}