{"id":1034,"date":"2005-03-27T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/03\/27\/anti-eu_party_lunacy"},"modified":"2005-03-27T17:03:41","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T16:03:41","slug":"anti-eu_party_lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/03\/27\/anti-eu_party_lunacy","title":{"rendered":"Anti-EU party lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?menuId=1593&#038;menuItemId=-1&#038;view=DISPLAYCONTENT&#038;grid=P8&#038;targetRule=0#head7\">short letter<\/a> in today&#8217;s Sunday Telegraph wonders why Kilroy gave his party (of which we haven&#8217;t heard much since it was founded; wonder why?) a Latin name, Veritas (meaning Truth in English or Pravda in Russian):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is odd that he has called his party Veritas, which means &#8220;truth&#8221; in Latin, the language of intellectuals in Europe during the Middle Ages. Odder still that his party intends to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Is the English language not enough to provide his party with a name? Or does he intend us all to communicate in one of the languages used on the Continent of Europe?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps his intention is to destroy the EU rather than merely take the UK out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the prospective UK Independence Party candidate for Colne reveals an innovative policy for tracking asylum seekers.  Because of EU rules, cattle can be tracked from birth to the dining table; the Government can&#8217;t, on the other hand, track asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.  So what do the UKIP plan to do?  Assign each asylum seeker a cow.<\/p>\n<p>Only trouble is, once they pull us out of the EU, the regulations on the tracking of cows (which are for human health reasons, to make sure we aren&#8217;t fed beef products full of prion-rich offal) will no longer be part of UK law.  How will they do their tracking then?  Actually, when I read this I thought it was a joke, and I wonder if the Telegraph&#8217;s editors did too.  With policies like this, perhaps the Monster Raving Loony Party will agree to a merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short letter in today&#8217;s Sunday Telegraph wonders why Kilroy gave his party (of which we haven&#8217;t heard much since it was founded; wonder why?) a Latin name, Veritas (meaning Truth in English or&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sir"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-gG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}