{"id":8719,"date":"2019-01-14T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:54:16","slug":"west-oxfordshire-first-sighting-of-brexit-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8719","title":{"rendered":"West Oxfordshire – first sighting of Brexit unicorn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron will go down as one of the UK’s worst peacetime Prime Ministers.<\/p>\n

In a bid to solve a decades-old breach in his party caused by xenophobes, racists and Europhobes, he organised an “in-out referendum<\/em>” on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union.<\/p>\n

Once the referendum came up with the wrong result, Cameron immediately ran away and left others to clear up the mes he left behind, a process at which his successor Theresa May and her ministers have failed spectacularly and serially, highlighting the shallowness of the Tory Party talent pool.<\/p>\n

My brother and his family have the misfortune to live in “Call Me Dave<\/em>” Cameron’s former constituency of Witney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even though his Witney constituency voted to remain in the EU in the MP’s disastrous referendum, there might just be changes afoot.<\/p>\n

A unicorn, a supposedly mythical beast, with which supporters of remaining in the EU mock the extravagant and totally unreal promises made by the Leave campaign, has appeared in one of Witney’s main shopping streets, as photographed yesterday by your ‘umble scribe. <\/p>\n

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An odd stance. What’s the beast trying to do?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The reason for the unicorn’s unusual stance is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron will go down as one of the UK’s worst peacetime Prime Ministers. In a bid to solve a decades-old breach in his party caused by xenophobes, racists and Europhobes, he organised an “in-out referendum” on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. Once the referendum came up with […]<\/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-8719","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\/8719","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=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}