{"id":239,"date":"2005-04-16T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/04\/xenophobia-apathy\/"},"modified":"2005-04-16T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T09:04:00","slug":"xenophobia-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/04\/xenophobia-apathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenophobia, Apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/funky_rap_ambient.png\" width=200 align=left>I was finally able yesterday to meet Emily Thornberry yesterday. I accompanied her as she knocked on doors two blocks from my place, and I got to interview her which will (once I have had a chance to edit it) appear <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.five.org\/blog\/\">here<\/a>. Less than 3 weeks to go and the two main flavours of this election so far seem to be Michael Howard&#8217;s xenophobic campaign and voter apathy. The Conservative strategy is so easy to mock <a HREF=\"http:\/\/kryogenix.org\/code\/conposter\/index.php\" target=_blank>(make your own poster here)<\/a> but apathy is far more difficult to counter. <\/p>\n<p>I had 3 hours to chat with Emily and her able assistant John as we stomped the streets of Islington&#8217;s social housing. The delay was caused by her participation in a Labour press conference with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/gordon_brown\/dunfermline_east\" target=_blank>Gordon Brown<\/a>, on one of Labour&#8217;s successes, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.surestart.gov.uk\/\" target=_blank>Surestart<\/a>, which has put money into early child development. A noble effort, helping the young citizens of Britain to be less stupid. I watched the news later to see if I could spot her, but the edit was merciless, not even Gordon got a speaking part, and I only recognised her in a long shot and a half-second cream-suited exit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to work on writing a full account of yesterday&#8217;s mission. For now suffice to say, Emily was very helpful and charming, and I was more than happy with the interview. The only dumb thing I did was call her Emma as soon as the DAT was recording. I&#8217;m still trying to blush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was finally able yesterday to meet Emily Thornberry yesterday. I accompanied her as she knocked on doors two blocks from my place, and I got to interview her which will (once I have had a chance to edit it) appear here. Less than 3 weeks to go and the two main flavours of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}