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Bye bye then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With perfect illogic, the British Education secretary won&#8217;t vote for his own policy to raise university tuition fees to a level guaranteed to make slaves of students FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. No doubt this politician won&#8217;t vote for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2010\/12\/politician-wont-vote-for-his-own-policy\/\">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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-1x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":600,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/07\/bye-bye-banks\/","url_meta":{"origin":95,"position":0},"title":"Bye Bye Banks","author":"taxicle","date":"July 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It is possible now that all the major British banks may be sued for trillions over the LIBOR scandal, pushing them all into bankruptcy. 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