{"id":9551,"date":"2019-04-29T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2019-04-29T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:10:05","slug":"refusal-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9551\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusal Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears Jeremy Corbyn has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-48070983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refused<\/a> to attend a banquet with Donald Trump when he visits the UK in June, leading to a lot of tweets like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeremy Corbyn has refused to meet Donald Trump when he comes to the UK for a state visit<\/p>\n<p>But????<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Corbyn meets Chinese President Xi &#8211; BBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D4XP9sVmYK\">https:\/\/t.co\/D4XP9sVmYK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Njames World ???????? (@NJamesWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJamesWorld\/status\/1122161984378757125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThis is the wrong approach. As I&#8217;ve written recently, there is no point in trying to shame the utterly shameless or point to the hypocrisy of people with no principles whatsoever. Nobody who currently supports Corbyn would care if he was caught stealing jewelry from the museum cases at Auschwitz, and they&#8217;d bend over backwards to excuse him.<\/p>\n<p>The better response would be to say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;Why do you assume Trump has any interest in meeting you? Does he even know who you are?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we had a Tory party that wasn&#8217;t gelded, someone would say this in parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears Jeremy Corbyn has refused to attend a banquet with Donald Trump when he visits the UK in June, leading to a lot of tweets like this one: Jeremy Corbyn has refused to meet Donald Trump when he comes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9551\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9554,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}