{"id":598,"date":"2009-03-18T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=598"},"modified":"2009-03-19T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T10:45:32","slug":"invade-jersey-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Invade Jersey Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strike>Don&#8217;t <\/strike>Invade Jersey <strike>Iraq<\/strike><\/strong>\u00a0 read the placards that Mark Thomas had made for his one-hour demo (sorry, this was a &#8216;<em>media event<\/em>&#8216; and not a demonstration and thus needed no SOCPA authorisation) outside the MoD. Demonstrating (or media-eventing) along with him were representatives of Jersey&#8217;s teachers, who want a British take-over of this offshore tax haven so they can get the same working conditions as UK teachers including the right to a lunch hour. But the main point of the demonstration was that, thanks to PFI, the Private Finance Initiative that is Gordon Brown&#8217;s prime dogma, most of our government buildings (and policies?) are now in the hands of private companies based off-shore in tax havens to avoid UK tax.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/03\/17\/20090317-d0607.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" alt=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><em><br \/>\nMark with demonstrators and police on the MOD steps<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the demonstration and the six reasons that Mark gave for we should invade now<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/03\/17\/20090317-d0510.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and see more pictures on <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/03\/mar.htm#jersey\" target=\"_blank\">My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Invade Jersey Iraq\u00a0 read the placards that Mark Thomas had made for his one-hour demo (sorry, this was a &#8216;media event&#8216; and not a demonstration and thus needed no SOCPA authorisation) outside the MoD. Demonstrating (or media-eventing) along with him were representatives of Jersey&#8217;s teachers, who want a British take-over of this offshore tax &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Invade Jersey Now!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}