{"id":20766,"date":"2017-01-24T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766"},"modified":"2017-01-24T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T10:09:55","slug":"still-a-glimmer-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766","title":{"rendered":"Still a Glimmer of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/377;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"EU\/UK Flags\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eu_uk.gif\" alt=\"EU\/UK Flags\" width=\"524\" height=\"377\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country<\/li>\n<li>Britain is part of Europe<\/li>\n<li>It should also be a member of Europe<\/li>\n<li>the days of the \u201cBritish\u201d sneering at foreigners should have been forced into the dustbin of history and left there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If only someone would grow a backbone and reverse this idiotic \u201cdecision\u201d to leave. The narrow \u2018leave\u2019 vote was based entirely on prejudice, hatred, and sheer ignorance by those who cast their votes that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"DOAADI\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 4.9.9\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Diary Of An ADI - A Driving Instructor&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-24T10:09:55+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-01-24T10:09:55+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BlogPosting\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#blogposting\",\"name\":\"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI\",\"headline\":\"Still a Glimmer of Hope\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?author=2#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/#person\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/eu_uk.gif\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766\\\/#articleImage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"Brexit, News\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?cat=87#listItem\",\"name\":\"News\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?cat=87#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?cat=87\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#listItem\",\"name\":\"Still a Glimmer of Hope\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Still a Glimmer of Hope\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?cat=87#listItem\",\"name\":\"News\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/#person\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?author=2#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?author=2\",\"name\":\"DOAADI\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b66a27a7421ee4ad46fcecfdc7961aa5bffbecb103dd9d01f37875b7c8c09b48?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"DOAADI\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766\",\"name\":\"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI\",\"description\":\"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?p=20766#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?author=2#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/?author=2#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"Diary Of An ADI\",\"alternateName\":\"DOAADI\",\"description\":\"A Driving Instructor's Blog\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\\\/#person\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro -->\r\n\t\t<title>Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI<\/title>\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI","description":"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member","canonical_url":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#blogposting","name":"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI","headline":"Still a Glimmer of Hope","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?author=2#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/#person"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eu_uk.gif","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766\/#articleImage"},"datePublished":"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00","dateModified":"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00","inLanguage":"en-GB","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#webpage"},"articleSection":"Brexit, News"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?cat=87#listItem","name":"News"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?cat=87#listItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?cat=87","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#listItem","name":"Still a Glimmer of Hope"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#listItem","position":3,"name":"Still a Glimmer of Hope","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?cat=87#listItem","name":"News"}}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/#person"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?author=2#author","url":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?author=2","name":"DOAADI","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b66a27a7421ee4ad46fcecfdc7961aa5bffbecb103dd9d01f37875b7c8c09b48?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"DOAADI"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#webpage","url":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766","name":"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI","description":"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member","inLanguage":"en-GB","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?author=2#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?author=2#author"},"datePublished":"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00","dateModified":"2017-01-24T10:09:55+01:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/","name":"Diary Of An ADI","alternateName":"DOAADI","description":"A Driving Instructor's Blog","inLanguage":"en-GB","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/#person"}}]},"og:locale":"en_GB","og:site_name":"Diary Of An ADI - A Driving Instructor's Blog","og:type":"article","og:title":"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI","og:description":"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member","og:url":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766","article:published_time":"2017-01-24T10:09:55+00:00","article:modified_time":"2017-01-24T10:09:55+00:00","twitter:card":"summary_large_image","twitter:title":"Still a Glimmer of Hope - Diary Of An ADI","twitter:description":"The government has lost its appeal against having to put the decision to trigger Article 50 to Parliament. Let\u2019s not forget: allowing morons to vote on EU membership in the first place was the worst decision any government has ever made in this country Britain is part of Europe It should also be a member"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"20766","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"seo_analyzer_scan_date":"2026-05-21 14:32:06","breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"open_ai":null,"ai":null,"created":"2022-10-15 02:09:05","updated":"2026-05-21 14:32:06"},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?cat=87\" title=\"News\">News<\/a>\n<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\tStill a Glimmer of Hope\n<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk"},{"label":"News","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?cat=87"},{"label":"Still a Glimmer of Hope","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20766"}],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}