{"id":2293,"date":"2015-05-07T22:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2022-05-14T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T19:05:18","slug":"general-elections-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/general-elections-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"General Elections 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another general election is currently taking place. At the time I write this post it looks like conservatives will win but the result isn&#8217;t definitive yet<\/p>\n<p>It had me thinking though everytime elections come they always tell you what you want to hear in reality it never happens that way and they just spend the budget the way they want to<\/p>\n<p>How would you spend it ?<\/p>\n<p>Personally to me. Throwing money at the problem isn&#8217;t the solution.\u00a0 Money is infinitive.<\/p>\n<p>To me you focus on the knowledge. 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