{"id":1140384,"date":"2023-07-18T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1667242"},"modified":"2023-07-18T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:50:09","slug":"if-politics-in-the-uk-was-one-of-thames-waters-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/18\/if-politics-in-the-uk-was-one-of-thames-waters-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"If politics in the UK was one of Thames Water\u2019s rivers\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1667243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211.png\" alt=\"A cartoon with a picture of Keir Starmer saying &quot;we need to put clear blue water between us and the tories&quot;. Below him are the Labour Party and Conservative Party logos. In between is a hole in the ground - flowing from both parties' logos is dirty brown water. The hold has rubbish in it, as well as signs that read &quot;child benefit u-turn&quot;, &quot;opposing strikes&quot;, and &quot;NHS pay&quot;\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211.png 3000w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-720x720.png 720w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-55x55.png 55w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-211-403x403.png 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/author\/cartoonralph\/\">Ralph Underhill<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/cartoons\/2023\/07\/18\/labour-tories-clear-blue-water\/\">Canary<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ralph Underhill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32895,2501,5625,5627],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140385,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140384\/revisions\/1140385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}