{"id":87678,"date":"2019-04-08T01:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/08\/uk-poised-to-embrace-authoritarianism-warns-hansard\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T01:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:01:34","slug":"uk-poised-to-embrace-authoritarianism-warns-hansard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87678","title":{"rendered":"UK poised to embrace authoritarianism, warns Hansard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public attitudes emerge that \u2018challenge core tenets of our democracy\u2019, says reportThe UK public is increasingly disenchanted with MPs and government and ever more willing to welcome the idea of authoritarian leaders who would ignore parliament, a long-running survey of attitudes to politics has shown.Amid the Brexit chaos, overall public faith in the political system has reached a nadir not previously seen in the 16-year history of the Hansard Society\u2019s audit of political engagement, lower even than at the depths of the crisis over MPs\u2019 expenses. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/apr\/08\/uk-more-willing-embrace-authoritarianism-warn-hansard-audit-political-engagement\" target=\"_blank\">UK poised to embrace authoritarianism, warns Hansard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public attitudes emerge that \u2018challenge core tenets of our democracy\u2019, says reportThe UK public is increasingly disenchanted with MPs and government and ever more willing to welcome the idea of authoritarian leaders who would ignore parliament, a long-running survey of attitudes to politics has shown.Amid the Brexit chaos, overall public [&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-87678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87678","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=87678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}