{"id":4184,"date":"2014-05-21T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2014-05-21T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:37:03","slug":"bloody-foreigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4184","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Foreigner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much scrutiny in the media about UKIP&#8217;s xenophobia in the run-up to tomorrow&#8217;s European Parliament election.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, party leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/may\/16\/nigel-farage-lbc-interview-key-moments\">Nigel Farage got into a little difficulty in a radio interview<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/\">LBC<\/a> last week, giving rise to accusations of racism, something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/opinion\/news-opinion\/nigel-farages-apology-what-really-3570284\">he later explained away as being due to tiredness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The picture below (<em>for which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigade1665\">Ade Cooper<\/a> gets a tip of the hat. Ed.<\/em>) should bring a smile to the face of anyone similarly stricken to me in years who doesn&#8217;t share young Nigel&#8217;s Little Englander view of the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/05\/farage_foreigner.jpg\" alt=\"text on image reads Bloody Foreigner coming over here wanting to know what love is\" width=\"591\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/05\/farage_foreigner.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/05\/farage_foreigner-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To prevent any further incursion of foreigners and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreigner_%28band%29\">Foreigner<\/a>, perhaps the UK should deploy a squadron of Farage balloons around the coast. Similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barrage_balloon\">barrage balloons<\/a> used in the 20th century&#8217;s 2 world wars, these isolationist windbags could soon blow any threat of invasion to the shores of Blighty back to whence it came. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much scrutiny in the media about UKIP&#8217;s xenophobia in the run-up to tomorrow&#8217;s European Parliament election. Indeed, party leader Nigel Farage got into a little difficulty in a radio interview on LBC last week, giving rise to accusations of racism, something he later explained away as being due to tiredness. The picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15],"tags":[22,33,20],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","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=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}