{"id":837,"date":"2019-10-31T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:39:23","slug":"brexit-and-all-hallows-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Brexit and All Hallows Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The date for Brexit came and went to be followed by the inevitable UK general election. We can pause to\u00a0survey the carnage of the last four months in our so-called\u00a0mother country, the one that bequeathed our institutions, law and customs to us, and the trashing of its parliamentary conventions\u00a0by elected executive, but minority, government. Unlawful proroguing, the powerlessness\u00a0and\u00a0pointlessness\u00a0of its &#8211; and our &#8211; Head of State &#8211; if\u00a0she had opinions they were not heard. Parliament taking control\u00a0of the Government&#8217;s agenda and cynical\u00a0government actions being referred to and\u00a0decided in the courts.\u00a0It could happen here which is why we\u00a0will ensure\u00a0government by the people when we create The Great Republic of the Southern Seas. In other words, &#8220;Trust the Women&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date for Brexit came and went to be followed by the inevitable UK general election. We can pause to\u00a0survey the carnage of the last four months in our so-called\u00a0mother country, the one that bequeathed our institutions, law and customs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","wpcat-11-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}