{"id":3001,"date":"2013-11-01T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T08:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2013-11-02T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T09:23:30","slug":"racist-van-a-load-of-tripe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"Racist van: a load of tripe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I blogged about the Home Office&#8217;s so-called racist van (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2471\" title=\"Home Office\u2019s racist van investigated by ASA\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>). Yesterday along with most of the national media the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-24755547\">BBC reported<\/a> that the Home Office had admitted that just 11 illegal immigrants had left the UK as a result of its ill-advised campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Home Office&#8217;s efforts were ill-advised and less than successful, its use of mobile billboards has inspired their use by others like the <a href=\"http:\/\/tripemarketingboard.co.uk\/\">Tripe Marketing Board<\/a>, as the picture below &#8211; allegedly from Lancashire &#8211; shows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/tripe-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"Tripe van\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/tripe-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/tripe-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/11\/tripe.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I blogged about the Home Office&#8217;s so-called racist van (posts passim). Yesterday along with most of the national media the BBC reported that the Home Office had admitted that just 11 illegal immigrants had left the UK as a result of its ill-advised campaign. Although the Home Office&#8217;s efforts were ill-advised and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,15],"tags":[25,33,20],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-food","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}