{"id":31561,"date":"2015-06-09T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31561"},"modified":"2015-06-08T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:01:58","slug":"qotd-politics-as-it-is-practiced-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/09\/qotd-politics-as-it-is-practiced-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Politics, as practiced in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledged  that it will be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the outset.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Micklethwait explains the sourcing of this quote at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2012\/04\/samizdata-quote-989\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>: The above paragraph, originally written to describe the onward march of the European Union, is quoted by Delingpole, in his book <em>Watermelons<\/em> (p. 45), to help him explain how AGW went from crankery to globally imposed policy. Delingpole found it in <em>The Great Deception<\/em> (p. 605) by Booker and North. They got it from a <em>Times<\/em> editorial, published on August 28, 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is later conceded that it [&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":[8,62,9,41],"tags":[337,458],"class_list":["post-31561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-europe","category-law","category-quotations","tag-eu","tag-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561","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=31561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31596,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31561\/revisions\/31596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}