{"id":8950,"date":"2019-02-23T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:41:39","slug":"gloucestershire-live-reveals-truth-about-the-independent-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire Live reveals truth about The Independent Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk\/\">Gloucestershire Live<\/a> is a sister title of the Bristol Post\/Bristol Live and as such provides a similar mediocre quality of journalism to its <del datetime=\"2019-02-23T13:40:51+00:00\">victims<\/del> readers.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, it shook off that veil of mediocrity &#8211; albeit briefly &#8211; as its website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk\/rebel-mp-chuka-umunna-gloucestershire-2574754\">published an item<\/a> confirming what many believed concerning the main politics news story of the week: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/independent-group-policy-brexit-views-labour-corbyn-berger-umunna-mps-lib-dem-a8784611.html\">exit of right-wing MPs from the Labour Party to form a breakaway group<\/a>, as shown in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/02\/ummuna_conservative-600x374.jpg\" alt=\"Header for piece about Chuka Umunna reads Conservatives\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/02\/ummuna_conservative-600x374.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/02\/ummuna_conservative-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/02\/ummuna_conservative-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/02\/ummuna_conservative.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Gloucestershire friends have this morning confirmed via social media that as far as the governance of the county is concerned, politics inevitably equals the Conservatives and the Blue Team dominate what is effectively a de facto one-party state.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Westengland\">Westengland<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloucestershire Live is a sister title of the Bristol Post\/Bristol Live and as such provides a similar mediocre quality of journalism to its victims readers. Yesterday, it shook off that veil of mediocrity &#8211; albeit briefly &#8211; as its website published an item confirming what many believed concerning the main politics news story of the [&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],"tags":[36,16,10,22,33,20,35],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","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=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}