{"id":33645,"date":"2016-02-20T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=33645"},"modified":"2016-02-20T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T11:43:22","slug":"dont-you-know-theres-a-war-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/02\/20\/dont-you-know-theres-a-war-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t you know there&#8217;s a war on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This short film tells the shocking facts about Conservative sickness benefit policy<\/p>\n<p>This video pretty much speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PI1DLh9tJw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was made aware of this from the most excellent Vox Political Blog by MIKE SIVIER<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FZNwvtYelb\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/voxpoliticalonline.com\/2016\/02\/20\/this-short-film-tells-the-shocking-facts-about-conservative-sickness-benefit-policy\/\">This short film tells the shocking facts about Conservative sickness benefit policy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;This short film tells the shocking facts about Conservative sickness benefit policy&#8221; &#8212; Vox Political\" src=\"https:\/\/voxpoliticalonline.com\/2016\/02\/20\/this-short-film-tells-the-shocking-facts-about-conservative-sickness-benefit-policy\/embed\/#?secret=oRUmzMgXhP#?secret=FZNwvtYelb\" data-secret=\"FZNwvtYelb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short film tells the shocking facts about Conservative sickness benefit policy This video pretty much speaks for itself. I was made aware of this from the most excellent Vox Political Blog by MIKE SIVIER This short film tells the shocking facts about Conservative sickness benefit policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-8KF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":151681,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/11\/13\/social-murder\/","url_meta":{"origin":33645,"position":0},"title":"Social murder","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Social murder\u00a0is a phrase used by\u00a0Friedrich Engels\u00a0in his 1845 work\u00a0The Condition of the Working-Class in England\u00a0whereby \"the class which at present holds social and political control\" (i.e. the\u00a0bourgeoisie) \"places hundreds of\u00a0proletarians\u00a0in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death\".[1]\u00a0This was in a different category\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21579,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/10\/08\/this-is-as-good-as-its-going-to-get-for-cameron-and-he-knows-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":33645,"position":1},"title":"This is as good as it&#8217;s going to get for Cameron \u2013 and he knows it","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2018The NHS safe because of us\u2019 was just one boast unwinding as he spoke. 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