{"id":2219,"date":"2010-04-13T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:20:13","slug":"ending-the-vulture-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Ending the vulture culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a General Election is called in the UK, all proposed legislation then in progress in Parliament is subject to a bizarrely named and opaquely executed process known as &#8220;wash up&#8221;. The Government and Opposition agree which legislation can be rushed to the Statute Book with anything politically controversial usually dropped and much horsetrading.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to note that a Bill on vulture funds &#8211; formally called the<em> Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill <\/em> &#8211; survived this process since I wrote in support of the measure.\u00a0 The legislation cracks down on so-called vulture funds which prey on developing countries by purchasing their debt at low cost and then suing them for the money.<\/p>\n<p>More information<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk\/Campaign%20Latest+5006.twl\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a General Election is called in the UK, all proposed legislation then in progress in Parliament is subject to a bizarrely named and opaquely executed process known as &#8220;wash up&#8221;. The Government and Opposition agree which legislation can be rushed to the Statute Book with anything politically controversial usually dropped and much horsetrading. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}