{"id":837,"date":"2019-12-12T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2019-12-12T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:28:13","slug":"watching-john-mcdonnell-getting-his-excuses-in-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/watching-john-mcdonnell-getting-his-excuses-in-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching John McDonnell getting his excuses in early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blimey, I&#8217;m watching this on BBC1 and wanting Andrew Neil to be kinder to John McDonnell.<\/p>\n<p>Fair play to McDonnell, he is making a reasonable analysis of what he must find to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2019-50765773\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">devastating<\/a> exit poll result. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years exit polls conducted by Sir John Curtice and his team have been remarkably accurate. Given the strange days we live in, this one may be less so &#8211; but with a projected majority of 86 the Tories can afford to lose quite a few. <\/p>\n<p>We are on course for the best result for the Conservatives since 1987. The working class have gone Tory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blimey, I&#8217;m watching this on BBC1 and wanting Andrew Neil to be kinder to John McDonnell. Fair play to McDonnell, he is making a reasonable analysis of what he must find to be a devastating exit poll result. In recent years exit polls conducted by Sir John Curtice and his team have been remarkably accurate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}