{"id":4154,"date":"2009-05-10T02:02:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloggie.org\/proggold\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2009-05-10T02:02:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T06:02:23","slug":"pandering-to-the-pizza-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/2009\/05\/10\/pandering-to-the-pizza-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandering to The Pizza Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a political weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Never was so much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/\">freeloaded<\/a> by so many in New Labour&#8217;s long march to attain &#8211; and maintain &#8211; the <em>haute-bourgeois<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/mps-expenses\/5301423\/MPs-expenses-minister-Kitty-Ussher-used-allowances-for-20000-house-make-over.html\">lifestyle<\/a> to which they think they should be accustomed. Never were so many acres of newsprint or miles of pixels expended in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/mps-expenses\/5301176\/MPs-expenses-Its-easy-to-blame-the-system-without-taking-responsibility.html\">condemning<\/a> it. &#8216;Do they think we&#8217;re stupid?&#8217; is the general cry.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/mps-expenses\/5301510\/MPs-expenses-Sinn-Fein-claimed-500000-for-second-homes.html\">they do<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If this ASDA customer service recording is any evidence, they&#8217;re right. We are stupid. And like greedy MPs, we all expect something for nothing too:<\/p>\n<p align='center'><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8H8HnaTIcmk&#038;hl=nl&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8H8HnaTIcmk&#038;hl=nl&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hello? Is that ASDA\/Walmart? Can you deliver another Parliament, please? This one&#8217;s got no bottom to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a political weekend. Never was so much freeloaded by so many in New Labour&#8217;s long march to attain &#8211; and maintain &#8211; the haute-bourgeois lifestyle to which they think they should be accustomed. Never were so many acres of newsprint or miles of pixels expended in condemning it. &#8216;Do they think we&#8217;re stupid?&#8217; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,17,106],"tags":[826,229,823,812,810,819,141,158,818,270,239],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food","category-funny","category-uh-wtf","tag-corruption","tag-expenses","tag-food","tag-funny","tag-media","tag-new-labour","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-video","tag-walmart","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}