{"id":73333,"date":"2019-10-29T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73333"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:10:20","slug":"parliament-votes-to-reject-boris-johnsons-general-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/parliament-votes-to-reject-boris-johnsons-general-election-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament votes to reject Boris Johnson&#8217;s general election bid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>British MPs reject early election plan for 12th December; UK PM Borish Jhonson set to try again amid ongoing Brexit stalemate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament again has rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s latest bid for a general election on December 12. The motion failed, with 299 votes in favor and just 70 against. However, it fell shy of the 434 votes which is two-thirds of all MPs, required to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said, this House can no longer keep this country hostage and Parliament had become dysfunctional. He has attacked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for refusing to back a general election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he would continue to press for a December 12 polling day even though the Liberal Democrats and the SNP suggested at the weekend they could support a slightly earlier date of December 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the opposition Labour Party abstained in the vote, making it impossible to secure the necessary two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Brussels, EU leaders are expected to agree a flexible extension to the UK&#8217;s Brexit date from October 31 to the end of January. Reports say that Boris Johnson is to try again for a pre-Christmas election after MPs rejected his plans for the third time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British MPs reject early election plan for 12th December; UK PM Borish Jhonson set to try again amid ongoing Brexit stalemate. Parliament again has rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s latest bid for a general election on December 12. The motion failed, with 299 votes in favor and just 70 against. However, it fell shy of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73335,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333\/revisions\/73335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}