{"id":296,"date":"2005-07-22T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=296"},"modified":"2005-07-22T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T01:08:33","slug":"members-of-parliament-leave-london-to-bombers-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/members-of-parliament-leave-london-to-bombers-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of Parliament Leave London To Bombers&#8217; Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Our MPs began their annual 80 day recess today. They talk about <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4707553.stm\">business as normal<\/A>, and yet head out to Provence, or Andalucia, or wherever it is, with families in&nbsp;tow. <\/P><P>I am beginning to get a little bit upset.<\/P><P>We face a huge challenge. Now is not the time to leave London to its own devices, or should I&nbsp;say, it is not the time to leave London to the bombers&#8217; devices. Anyway, thanks to many of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/directories\/hciolists\/alms.cfm\">these politicians<\/A>. <\/P><P>I hope you enjoy your time off.&nbsp;Why <EM>do<\/EM> citizens think its acceptable that politicians have so much time off in times of peace, let alone in times of terror? <\/P><P>The sirens have been blatting all day.&nbsp;The streets are crawling with cops. The police have made one kill already this morning&nbsp;(losing&nbsp;an important source in the process?). Things are not normal. How could they be? What could be more extraordinary?<\/P><P>Do I want knee jerk reactions and new legislation on the fly? No. <\/P><P>But I do want our politicians to stand firm with London. Tony Blair was once goaded into talking of a willingness to pay the <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2239887.stm\">blood price<\/A>. Well its civilians, not just soldiers in Iraq, that are footing the bill.<\/P><P>By your actions, not your words, shall we know you.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our MPs began their annual 80 day recess today. They talk about business as normal, and yet head out to Provence, or Andalucia, or wherever it is, with families in&nbsp;tow. I am beginning to get a little bit upset.We face a huge challenge. Now is not the time to leave London to its own devices,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-4M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}