{"id":18114,"date":"2019-05-24T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:28","slug":"unite-gs-mccluskey-slams-shambolic-tories-amid-general-election-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18114","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Farce has to end\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shambolic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Conservative party is incapable of governing and a general election is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098only honourable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 way forward the leader of the UK and Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, Unite said today (Friday May 24) after Theresa May announced that she is standing down as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTheresa May&#8217;s announcement today underscores what a mess the Conservative party is and that this party is actually now incapable of governing,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe shambolic handling of Brexit, the yawning inequalities in this country, our fraying public services and our once-proud manufacturing industry sliding into decline are the legacy of this prime minister and her woeful Tory government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is a grave insult to the people of this country that our fate now lies in the hands of scheming Tory MPs and a few thousand Tory members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis farce has to end.\u00c2\u00a0The challenges before our country are too great and the need to restore fairness to our society too urgent, they are ill-served by this pantomime. A general election now is the only honourable and sensible way forward.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shambolic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Conservative party is incapable of governing and a general election is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098only honourable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 way forward the leader of the UK and Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, Unite said today (Friday May 24) after Theresa May announced that she is standing down as prime minister. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bTheresa May&#8217;s announcement today underscores what a mess the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS McCluskey slams \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shambolic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tories amid general election calls","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25257,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions\/25257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}