{"id":6107,"date":"2020-09-23T00:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2020-09-23T00:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:58:37","slug":"friendlyjordies-breaks-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/friendlyjordies-breaks-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"FriendlyJordies breaks governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>the idea of a Federal MP resigning from Cabinet over anything less than a disastrous and protracted scandal seems far-fetched at best. A litany of recent scandals from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/independentaustralia.net\/politics\/politics-display\/watergate-the-oxford-connection-behind-australias-richest-water-deal,12783\">Watergate<\/a>&#8221; involving Energy Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senators_and_Members\/Parliamentarian?MPID=231027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Angus Taylor<\/a> to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/independentaustralia.net\/politics\/politics-display\/the-morrison-government-when-rorting-became-sporting,13660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sports Rorts<\/a>&#8221; involving Agriculture Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senators_and_Members\/Parliamentarian?MPID=207825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bridget McKenzie<\/a>,\u00a0has\u00a0illustrated just how much-perceived wrongdoing is required before a ministerial resignation may actually occur.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/independentaustralia.net\/politics\/politics-display\/friendlyjordies-breaks-governments,14331\">FriendlyJordies breaks governments<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>They are all so corrupt that if they resigned due to corruption, there would be nobody left to govern. There is no honor left in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the idea of a Federal MP resigning from Cabinet over anything less than a disastrous and protracted scandal seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics","category-socmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}