{"id":30340,"date":"2023-07-09T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=30340"},"modified":"2023-07-09T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:49:11","slug":"politics-no-thanks-we-are-conservative-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=30340","title":{"rendered":"Politics?  No thanks, we are conservative |  conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\">The Taxpayers Alliance&#8217;s claim that it doesn&#8217;t disclose its donors because many people don&#8217;t like to talk or air their political views is reminiscent of Flanders and Swann&#8217;s old line: \u201cWe don&#8217;t have politics around here, we&#8217;re all conservatives. (Right-wing lobby campaigns to undermine UK&#8217;s four-day week, 7 July).<br \/><strong>Geoff Reid<\/strong><br \/>Bradford<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>    Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if a Banksy suddenly appeared celebrating honest Bob Jenrick&#8217;s caring attitude towards all children except refugee and migrant children (Robert Jenrick has murals painted on children&#8217;s asylum center, 7 July).<br \/><strong>WA Gulam<\/strong><br \/>Manchester<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>    My grandmother also had little time for weak ministers (El croquis de la politica, July 5).  She said, in her broad Lancashire accent, &#8220;If brains were dynamite, I wouldn&#8217;t have enough to take off my cap.&#8221;<br \/><strong>Barbara France<\/strong><br \/>Carnforth, Cumbria<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>    I don&#8217;t know what species they are, but the boating lake in Battersea Park, London already has turtles (European pond turtle could return to British rivers and lakes, July 7).  I saw one the day of your article.<br \/><strong>Tim Scott<\/strong><br \/>London<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>    Robots say they have no plans to steal jobs or rebel against humans (Report, July 8).  Yes, but would they say no? <br \/><strong>Hal Satterthwaite<\/strong><br \/>London<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>    Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name&#8230; (Opening the Lord&#8217;s Prayer can be &#8216;problematic&#8217;, says Archbishop, July 7).<br \/><strong>Peter Dewar<\/strong><br \/>Bromley, London<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><strong><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>    Have an opinion about anything you read in the Guardian today?  Please <\/strong><strong>e-mail<\/strong><strong>    Send us your letter and it will be considered for publication in ours <\/strong><strong>letters<\/strong><strong>    section<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2023\/jul\/09\/politics-no-thanks-were-conservatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taxpayers Alliance&#8217;s claim that it doesn&#8217;t disclose its donors because many people don&#8217;t like to talk or air their political views is reminiscent of Flanders and Swann&#8217;s old line: \u201cWe don&#8217;t have politics around here, we&#8217;re all conservatives. (Right-wing lobby campaigns to undermine UK&#8217;s four-day week, 7 July).Geoff ReidBradford Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if a Banksy suddenly appeared celebrating honest Bob Jenrick&#8217;s caring attitude towards all children except refugee and migrant children (Robert Jenrick has murals painted on children&#8217;s asylum center, 7 July).WA GulamManchester My grandmother also had little time for weak ministers (El croquis de la politica, July&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30342,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340\/revisions\/30342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}