{"id":80933,"date":"2019-02-19T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/19\/brexit-racism-and-a-hot-mic-the-independent-group-is-just-like-a-proper-party-james-felton\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:37:19","slug":"brexit-racism-and-a-hot-mic-the-independent-group-is-just-like-a-proper-party-james-felton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=80933","title":{"rendered":"Brexit, racism and a hot mic: the Independent Group is just like a proper party | James Felton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch by the \u2018gang of seven\u2019 of a breakaway political faction was a massive success. Let us count the waysAt the end of John Steinbeck\u2019s novel Of Mice and Men, one of the two main characters, Lennie, has got himself into big trouble. Rather than tell him that there\u2019s no way out, his friend George describes once again how they\u2019re going to live on a beautiful ranch and tend rabbits, before shooting Lennie in the back of the head. Which is about where we are right now as a country.The government that promised Brexit would improve our lives now count it as a major success that they\u2019ve stockpiled enough body bags for everyone. Car manufacturers are fleeing the country faster than a billionaire Brexiteer in pursuit of a tax break, and in the event of no deal, fresh food might become more scarce than accuracy in a Daniel Kawczynski tweet. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/feb\/19\/brexit-racism-independent-group-gang-of-seven\" target=\"_blank\">Brexit, racism and a hot mic: the Independent Group is just like a proper party | James Felton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch by the \u2018gang of seven\u2019 of a breakaway political faction was a massive success. Let us count the waysAt the end of John Steinbeck\u2019s novel Of Mice and Men, one of the two main characters, Lennie, has got himself into big trouble. Rather than tell him that there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}