{"id":1192,"date":"2006-04-27T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2006-04-27T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T21:35:53","slug":"certainly-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Certainly hope so&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/labour\/story\/0,,1762243,00.html\">today&#8217;s <em> Guardian<\/em>:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Labour MPs were cowering at Westminster yesterday, fearing that the government&#8217;s troubles would translate into one of the worst sets of local government results since Harold Wilson&#8217;s in 1968. The sense of crisis is heightened by the knowledge that the government faces several difficult tests in coming weeks.<strong \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>May 4, Local elections<\/strong><br \/>\nInside the cabinet there is as yet unvoiced concern at the possibility that Labour is going to lose control of the capital, including once-safe Labour councils such as <strong>Camden <\/strong>and Haringey.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hi ho, hi ho, it is off canvassing I go&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The nature of a political campaign is, I&#8217;ve discovered, very much that of a rollercoaster; you meet a couple of friendly and enthusiastic voters and you are &#8220;up&#8221;, a few cold shoulders and you are &#8220;down&#8221;. The fact is that with an unhappy electorate, the likelihood of a very low turnout, just about anything could happen, but Greens controlling the balance of power on Camden council is a distinct possibility. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Guardian: Labour MPs were cowering at Westminster yesterday, fearing that the government&#8217;s troubles would translate into one of the worst sets of local government results since Harold Wilson&#8217;s in 1968. The sense of crisis is heightened by the knowledge that the government faces several difficult tests in coming weeks. May 4, Local elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}