{"id":13238,"date":"2009-06-08T22:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/europe_vote_deepens_gloom_for_gordon_brown\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T22:30:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T22:30:56","slug":"europe_vote_deepens_gloom_for_gordon_brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13238","title":{"rendered":"Europe Vote Deepens Gloom for Gordon Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After outmaneuvering what amounted to an attempted coup last week by members of his own cabinet, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, confronted disastrous European election results Monday that could amplify calls within his party for his ouster.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly all the votes counted, Mr. Brown\u2019s Labor Party was beaten into a humiliating third place behind the small, euroskeptic United Kingdom Independence Party and the opposition Conservatives in first place.<\/p>\n<p>David Cameron, the Conservative leader, said the vote showed a \u201cdesperately weak and divided government\u201d\u009d locked with its internal adversaries in a \u201cslow dance of political death.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/09\/world\/europe\/09britain.html?ref=global-home\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After outmaneuvering what amounted to an attempted coup last week by members of his own cabinet, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, confronted disastrous European election results Monday that could amplify calls within his party for his ouster. With nearly all the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13238\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,199,200,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}