{"id":6685,"date":"2016-06-08T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T08:42:05","slug":"brexit-and-the-politics-of-coitus-interruptus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/06\/08\/brexit-and-the-politics-of-coitus-interruptus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit and the politics of coitus interruptus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's not much humour about Brexit \/ Brexodus. \u00a0The most memorable story for me is still from 1975 when we had an IN \/ OUT vote and\u00a0the Conservative party was all enthused about staying IN, and Labour was for OUT. \u00a0This was 41 years ago this week. \u00a0Happy days.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the many debates in parliament an MP criticised a fellow member\u00a0for his indecision on the question. \u00a0It went something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The Honourable gentleman can't make up his mind. \u00a0First he's in, then he's out. \u00a0 In, out. \u00a0In, out. \u00a0This is the politics of <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=the+politics+of+coitus+interruptus&amp;t=osx&amp;ia=web\">coitus interruptus<\/a>\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the stunned silence that followed this gross breach of parliamentary protocol (ie, mentioning copulation), a voice from the Conservative shires shouted<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Withdraw!\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No such fun this time. \u00a0It's probably all too existential. \u00a0Thanks, then, to Martin Vander Weyer in this week's Spectator who lives in fracking country (near Kirby Misperton, in God's own county) and is always being pestered for his opinion. \u00a0He has managed to compile a response to pollsters whether they are enquiring about fracking or Brexodus by saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"Of course, the risks are higher if we do it than if we don't, but so are the potential rewards, including the independence it would give us. \u00a0Just don't believe the scare stories ...\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's not much humour about Brexit \/ Brexodus. \u00a0The most memorable story for me is still from 1975 when we had an IN \/ OUT vote and\u00a0the Conservative party was all enthused about staying IN, and Labour was for OUT....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}