{"id":30155,"date":"2026-05-14T20:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30155"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:55:37","slug":"political-predictions-are-a-perilous-activity-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30155","title":{"rendered":"Political predictions are a perilous activity &#8211; but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a turbulent day in Labour Party politics, as a lifelong member I boldly offer what I think would be the best and the worst outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dream scenario:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Prime Minister Andy Burnham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Chancellor Ed Miliband<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My nightmare scenario:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keir Starmer stands for the leadership and, because of the preferential voting system, wins the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what happens &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a turbulent day in Labour Party politics, as a lifelong member I boldly offer what I think would be the best and the worst outcomes. My dream scenario: &#8211; Prime Minister Andy Burnham &#8211; Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner &#8211; Chancellor Ed Miliband My nightmare scenario: Keir Starmer stands for the leadership and, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30155","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\/30155","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=30155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30157,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions\/30157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}