{"id":11163,"date":"2014-03-10T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=11163"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:51:52","slug":"david-cameron-needs-friends-poor-poor-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/david-cameron-needs-friends-poor-poor-david\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron needs friends. Poor, poor, David."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/david-cameron-needs-friends-poor-poor-david\/cameron-facebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cameron-facebook.png\" data-orig-size=\"589,832\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cameron-facebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cameron-facebook-566x800.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cameron-facebook-566x800.png\" alt=\"cameron-facebook\" width=\"566\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cameron-facebook-566x800.png 566w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cameron-facebook-283x400.png 283w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cameron-facebook.png 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Cameron mocked for paying for Facebook friends<\/p>\n<p>Poor old David Cameron. Last week the prime minister was mocked after tweeting a photograph of himself phoning Barack Obama to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Now it appears the PM has made another social media gaffe \u2013 buying friends on Facebook. The Mail on Sunday reports that the Tories have spent thousands of pounds on advertising to encourage Facebook users to \u201clike\u201d Cameron\u2019s page. Marketing experts estimated that the campaign cost about \u00a37,500, and succeeded in boosted Cameron\u2019s \u201clikes\u201d by 47,000 to 127,000, overtaking Nick Clegg\u2019s 80,000 in the process. Labour MP Sheila Gilmore said: \u201cIt looks as if David Cameron is buying popularity. There is no end to his ego, paying for fake Facebook friends.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron mocked for paying for Facebook friends Poor old David Cameron. Last week the prime minister was mocked after tweeting a photograph of himself phoning Barack Obama to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Now it appears the PM has made another social media gaffe \u2013 buying friends on Facebook. The Mail on Sunday reports&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/david-cameron-needs-friends-poor-poor-david\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;David Cameron needs friends. Poor, poor, David.&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263,87],"class_list":["post-11163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-god-save-the-queen","tag-news-from-the-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-2U3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11165,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}