{"id":13243,"date":"2009-06-09T02:44:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mainstream_dismay_at_bnp_election_breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T02:44:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:44:57","slug":"mainstream_dismay_at_bnp_election_breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13243","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream dismay at BNP election breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream political parties rounded on the BNP today after its breakthrough in the European elections.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, condemned the election of two MEPs for the far-right party as a sad day for British politics, while David Cameron described the result as desperately depressing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The BNP are completely beyond the pale. They do not even let black and Asian people into their party, they are an appalling bunch of people,&#8221; the Tory leader said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/elections\/article6455983.ece\">I happened to catch a BBC interview on the Today programme this morning with a BNP leader via podcast&#8211;it was very difficult to listen to.  Read it all&#8211;KSH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream political parties rounded on the BNP today after its breakthrough in the European elections. Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, condemned the election of two MEPs for the far-right party as a sad day for British politics, while David Cameron<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13243\">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":[40,50,199,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","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=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}