{"id":13943,"date":"2024-03-30T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:13:58","slug":"distracted-boyfriend-tory-lite-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13943","title":{"rendered":"Distracted boyfriend: Tory Lite edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The latest variant of the Distracted boyfriend meme has just come into my social media feed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13837\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/starmer_thatcher.jpg\" alt=\"Starmer distracted by Thatcher to the dismay of Clem Attlee\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/starmer_thatcher.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/starmer_thatcher-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/starmer_thatcher-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/starmer_thatcher-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n<p>This time the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/dramatis%20personae\"><em>dramatis personae<\/em><\/a> are:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Distracted boyfriend &#8211; &#8216;Sir&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keir_Starmer\">Keir Rodney Starmer<\/a>, allegedly leader of the democratic socialist (<em>on paper anyway. Ed.<\/em>) Labour Party;<\/li>\r\n<li>Annoyed girlfriend &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clement_Attlee\">Clement Attlee<\/a>, leader of the 1945-51 post-war Labour government, which introduced the National Health Service amongst other achievements; and<\/li>\r\n<li>New love interest &#8211; one <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Thatcher\">Margaret Hilda Thatcher<\/a>, one of the Untied Kingdom&#8217;s worst prime ministers and figure of divine devotion to the right-wing Conservative Party, the person who inspired the addition to the English language of the noun Thatcherism and the adjective Thatcherite.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>Some would say that any similarity between Starmer and a socialist is &#8211; as Hollywood would say &#8211; purely coincidental; others would even go as far as to declare such to be non-existent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest variant of the Distracted boyfriend meme has just come into my social media feed (posts passim). This time the dramatis personae are: Distracted boyfriend &#8211; &#8216;Sir&#8217; Keir Rodney Starmer, allegedly leader of the democratic socialist (on paper anyway. Ed.) Labour Party; Annoyed girlfriend &#8211; Clement Attlee, leader of the 1945-51 post-war Labour government, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[36,16,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-13943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13960,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions\/13960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}