{"id":63154,"date":"2017-05-16T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63154"},"modified":"2017-05-16T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:18:58","slug":"behold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63154","title":{"rendered":"Behold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we were assured, BREXIT would spell doom for Britain, and the conservatives who led it.<\/p>\n<p>It just\u00a0<em>had\u00a0<\/em>to happen; BREXIT was an epic rejection of the political technocrat elite by the rabble and peasants &#8211; and the technocrats (and those who suck up to them) warned us that that could lead to nothing but calamity.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2016\/sep\/21\/post-referendum-gloom-fears-confounded-economic-evidence\">haan&#8217;t<\/a> &#8211; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/15\/voting-intention-regional-breakdown-apr-24-may-5\/\">opinion polls on the upcoming parliamentary votes seem to be bearing this out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time in this election, YouGov reveals the voting intention picture in each British government office region. The fieldwork, conducted from April 24 to May 5, shows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Conservative vote share is up, sometimes dramatically so, since the last general election in every region of the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Labour are down on their 2015 vote haul in every region of the UK except the South West and South East where they were already performing poorly.<\/li>\n<li>The Liberal Democrat vote share is up in most regions, but only by small margins.<\/li>\n<li>UKIP\u2019s vote share is down seven to ten points in all regions except Scotland and London, where they were already performing poorly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Tories have co-opted a lot of UKIP&#8217;s messaging. \u00a0And Labour seems to be eading toward its worst showing since the end of WWI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we were assured, BREXIT would spell doom for Britain, and the conservatives who led it. It just\u00a0had\u00a0to happen; BREXIT was an epic rejection of the political technocrat elite by the rabble and peasants &#8211; and the technocrats (and those who suck up to them) warned us that that could lead to nothing but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63155,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154\/revisions\/63155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}