{"id":18247,"date":"2019-06-14T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:25","slug":"polling-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18247","title":{"rendered":"Polling Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Wearing the rosette.<\/span><\/div>\n
Have you voted yet?<\/span><\/div>\n
Beguiled by the looking glass of nostalgia<\/span><\/div>\n
democracy once a noble endeavour.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Equality and social justice<\/span><\/div>\n
enduring for ever.<\/span><\/div>\n
Until it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all the same.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
Liars all liars.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
Only In it for themselves.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Disillusionment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Is that new?\u00c2\u00a0 No<\/span><\/div>\n
Is it worse? Yes<\/span><\/div>\n
Cleaning moats.\u00c2\u00a0 Flipping houses,<\/span><\/div>\n
Parliamentarians living on expenses.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Trouble in the Tory party.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sceptics on the green benches.<\/span><\/div>\n
PM took a gamble<\/span><\/div>\n
called for a take it or leave it referendum.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Voters determining momentum.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
An electoral vortex<\/span><\/div>\n
tore through the country<\/span><\/div>\n
echoing to the populist refrain<\/span><\/div>\n
the will of the people.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
B<\/i>****<\/i>cks to Brexit.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
Political rhetoric<\/span><\/div>\n
language of reality TV<\/span><\/div>\n
fake news and celebrity.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cries of treachery and betrayal.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Now we are left with a political crisis<\/span><\/div>\n
judgements made on the answer<\/span><\/div>\n
are you a Brexiteer or a Remainer?<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Still wearing the rosette.<\/span><\/div>\n
Have you voted yet?<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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  • Joy Johnson works in Unite’s political department<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00c2\u00a0 Wearing the rosette. Have you voted yet? Beguiled by the looking glass of nostalgia democracy once a noble endeavour. \u00c2\u00a0 Equality and social justice enduring for ever. Until it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. \u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all the same. Liars all liars. Only In it for themselves. \u00c2\u00a0 Disillusionment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Is that new?\u00c2\u00a0 No Is it worse? Yes Cleaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Joy Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard hitting comment in poetry","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247"}],"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=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25207,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/25207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}