{"id":24616,"date":"2014-03-10T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24616"},"modified":"2014-03-10T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:32:07","slug":"imagine-a-steel-capped-hush-puppy-crushing-a-state-funded-artists-face-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/imagine-a-steel-capped-hush-puppy-crushing-a-state-funded-artists-face-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine a steel-capped Hush Puppy crushing a state-funded artist&#8217;s face, forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the barricades, comrades! We must save the artists from the pitiless destruction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/mar\/09\/vision-life-under-ukip-steel-capped-hush-puppies\" target=\"_blank\">inevitable UKIP government repression<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A vision of life under The Ukip&#8217;s steel-capped Hush Puppies<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>How will the artist fare when The Ukip take over? The messages from HQ are far from clear<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The inevitable victory of the Scottish independence campaign and the subsequent collapse of the Labour vote in the sorry remnants of the UK will see the next election won by a coalition of The Ukip and The Conservative party. Then the Bullingdon boys&#8217; lack of appeal to the common man will eventually leave the country entirely crushed by The Ukip&#8217;s steel-capped Hush Puppy, as a pipe and cardigan version of The Golden Dawn gradually reshapes society in its own image, smothering dissent under an enormous tartan travel rug of hate.<\/p>\n<p>But whether one is a supporter of The Ukip&#8217;s position on immigration or not, at least it is easy to grasp. The Ukip dislikes immigration even more than it loves smoking in pubs. But I was born here so I&#8217;m all right. What concerns me, as a professional creative, is the apparent incoherence of the anti-immigration party&#8217;s arts policy, as this will have a direct effect on my own quality of life, financial future and access to touring theatre productions should I chose to leave London and live in a region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2014\/03\/how-will-the-artist-fare-when-ukip-take-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perry de Havilland<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the barricades, comrades! We must save the artists from the pitiless destruction of the inevitable UKIP government repression: A vision of life under The Ukip&#8217;s steel-capped Hush Puppies How will the artist fare when The Ukip take over? The messages from HQ are far from clear The inevitable victory of the Scottish independence campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,53],"tags":[102,570,533],"class_list":["post-24616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-politics","tag-art","tag-england","tag-ukip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24617,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions\/24617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}