{"id":20962,"date":"2017-02-25T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20962"},"modified":"2017-02-25T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:56:25","slug":"nearly-another-boaty-mcboatface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20962","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Another Boaty McBoatface"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BritishIt seems that the new \u00a31 coin \u2013 which will soon be put into circulation<\/a> \u2013 narrowly escaped having a picture of a fried breakfast on it.<\/p>\n

How long will it take for the arseholes who run this country wake up and realise that \u201chaving a vote\u201d on important decisions by involving the general public is like having your dog guard your kebab. It isn\u2019t going to work, no matter how much you try and convince yourself it will.<\/p>\n

It was almost Boaty McBoatface all over again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amusingly, the design chosen \u2013 from a 15-year old, and against the huge number of suggestions for a fried breakfast image \u2013 incorporates a rose, leek, thistle, and shamrock. Thanks to Brexit, at least one of those is likely to end up out of place in a few years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

In the words of Kent Brockman:<\/p>\n

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Democracy simply doesn’t work<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or Winston Churchill:<\/p>\n

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that the new \u00a31 coin \u2013 which will soon be put into circulation \u2013 narrowly escaped having a picture of a fried breakfast on it. How long will it take for the arseholes who run this country wake up and realise that \u201chaving a vote\u201d on important decisions by involving the general public […]<\/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":true,"_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":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t