When the election was called I was resigned to a Tory landslide but since then labour have improved & May has gone into a tail spin. For a moment you think a progressive alliance might be possible – we could be a forward looking country. But the latest polls suggest it’ll come out similar to now – but even worse as May has now been weakened and so will do anything to placate the hard right and the Tory press, so things are going to get much, much worse. But hey, it ain’t over till it’s over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the election was called I was resigned to a Tory landslide but since then labour have improved & May has gone into a tail spin. For a moment you think a progressive alliance might be possible – we could be a forward looking country. But the latest polls suggest it’ll come out similar to … Continue reading It’s the hope that kills<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-tongwynlais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/delay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}