{"id":926261,"date":"2026-04-29T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926261\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:54:15","slug":"cotton-deal-would-land-birmingham-in-the-mire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926261\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton &#8216;deal&#8217; would land Birmingham in the mire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians are constantly in the crosshairs, facing the prospect of being shot down at any moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, we are not talking about the apparent assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump, or even constant efforts to upend the premiership of Sir Keir Starmer. In the firing line this week is Birmingham City Council leader Cllr John Cotton \u2013 largely due to a political ploy in the run-up to the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politicians are constantly in the crosshairs, facing the prospect of being shot down at any moment.\u00a0 No, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,69249,393,150499,4884,10843,8414,2841,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-926261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-council-staff","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-equal-pay","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-industrial-action","15":"tag-labour","16":"tag-pay","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116487865573156740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}