{"id":127325,"date":"2014-07-02T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=127325"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:29:56","slug":"unite-vows-fight-thatcher-day-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/unite-vows-fight-thatcher-day-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Unite Vows To Fight &#8216;Thatcher Day&#8217; Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">UNITE delegates unanimously backed calls yesterday to stop hardline Tory MPs renaming August bank holiday \u201cMargaret Thatcher Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">The union committed to blocking Thatcher cheerleader Peter Bone MP\u2019s insulting celebration suggested \u2013 or making Labour rename the holiday Anuerin Bevan Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Delegates booed the mention of the hateful ex-PM\u2019s name and screamed \u201cno!\u201d when West Midlands delegate George Hickman asked: \u201cAre we going to tolerate this? Do you want a Maggie Thatcher day?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">But Yorkshire delegate Paul Quinn stuck up for Mr Bone\u2019s proposals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">He said: \u201cI think we ought to have this day. We should celebrate this day by doing what we do in Barnsley on Guy Fawkes day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u201cThat\u2019s burning effigies, setting off fireworks, reminding the youth what she actually did by having speeches and rallies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u201cI was a miner, I got arrested on the picket line and I want everyone to know what she did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstaronline.co.uk\/a-ca7c-Unite-vows-to-fight-Thatcher-Day-call\/#.U7NSePldUk0\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Star<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITE delegates unanimously backed calls yesterday to stop hardline Tory MPs renaming August bank holiday \u201cMargaret Thatcher Day.\u201d The union committed to blocking Thatcher cheerleader Peter Bone MP\u2019s insulting celebration suggested \u2013 or making Labour rename the holiday Anuerin Bevan Day.\u00a0 Delegates booed the mention of the hateful ex-PM\u2019s name and screamed \u201cno!\u201d when West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}