{"id":1401,"date":"2013-03-13T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2014-05-26T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:38:07","slug":"ukip-kip-if-they-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"UKIP if you want to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Europhobic United Kingdom Independence Party is always carping about how the European Union wastes money.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve now provided unequivocal evidence of the EU&#8217;s profligacy: here we see 2 UKIP MEPs snoozing their way through a debate in the European Parliament and thus not earning their allegedly gold-plated salaries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1402\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/03\/youkip.jpg\" alt=\"image of snoozing UKIP MEPs in Euro Parliament\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/03\/youkip.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/03\/youkip-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UKIP: snoring hard for Britain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some may accuse UKIP of hypocrisy; I couldn&#8217;t possibly comment. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Europhobic United Kingdom Independence Party is always carping about how the European Union wastes money. They&#8217;ve now provided unequivocal evidence of the EU&#8217;s profligacy: here we see 2 UKIP MEPs snoozing their way through a debate in the European Parliament and thus not earning their allegedly gold-plated salaries. Some may accuse UKIP of hypocrisy; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[36,20],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","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=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}