{"id":54813,"date":"2016-06-21T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_pete_broadbent-the_eu_referendum-a_disaster_on_legs\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T01:00:23","slug":"bp_pete_broadbent-the_eu_referendum-a_disaster_on_legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54813","title":{"rendered":"Bp Pete Broadbent&#8211;The Eu Referendum&#8211;a Disaster on Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The referendum has lit the blue touchpaper on a &#8220;debate&#8221; which is almost entirely undefined in its scope. As we have seen over the past weeks, everything and anything can be dragged into the campaign &#8211; which has been used by many as a proxy for every grievance they might have about politics and the political process.<\/p>\n<p>So, we have been in a game with no game plan and no rules of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened is detrimental to politics and the political process. Both sides have used misleading figures and information to conduct an argument that has been more like a childish spat in the playground than a measured examination of the issues. The electorate have been fed with ever more cooked statistics and exaggeration. It&#8217;s virtually impossible for the average voter to discover some facts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bishopofwillesden.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/06\/referendum-disaster-on-legs.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The referendum has lit the blue touchpaper on a &#8220;debate&#8221; which is almost entirely undefined in its scope. As we have seen over the past weeks, everything and anything can be dragged into the campaign &#8211; which has been used<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54813\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,199,168,200,144,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54813","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=54813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}