{"id":186,"date":"2012-05-22T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T07:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebirdblog.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:54:28","slug":"happy-crimbo-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Happy Crimbo everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another fantastic show of how completely out of touch with the real world the millionaires who populate the Cabinet really are, they have decided to rename &#8220;Asbos&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In future, ne&#8217;er do wells will compete to see who can collect a &#8220;Crimbo&#8221;, and all the little children will be happy. But if you are a rich twit who spent the Festive hols singing carols around the grand piano with mumsie and pater, or fagging at some elite school, you probably don&#8217;t know &#8220;Crimbo&#8221; is a name children associate with Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>But, then, the millionaires who govern us thought it OK to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>put more tax on pasties<\/li>\n<li>cut top taxes and take the money off pensioners<\/li>\n<li>keep energy prices high to pay big profits to nuclear power station operators<\/li>\n<li>cut police numbers<\/li>\n<li>and the lst goes on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They would be funny, if only their policies weren&#8217;t so devastating to the peopleof Britain, hundreds of thousands of which are losing their jobs and having their incomes slashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another fantastic show of how completely out of touch with the real world the millionaires who populate the Cabinet really are, they have decided to rename &#8220;Asbos&#8221;. In future, ne&#8217;er do wells will compete to see who can collect a &#8220;Crimbo&#8221;, and all the little children will be happy. But if you are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=186\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Crimbo everybody!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes-comments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}