{"id":95648,"date":"2016-06-23T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/23\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:08:26","slug":"what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/23\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"What would Mycroft do about the EU referendum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediogenes.tumblr.com\/post\/146356595128\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thediogenes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediogenes.tumblr.com\/post\/145630289523\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thediogenes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consulting-queer.tumblr.com\/post\/145629424533\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">consulting-queer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https:\/\/thediogenes.tumblr.com\/post\/145629301578\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\">thediogenes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s almost impossible for me to answer this without going off on one about politics but er, I\u2019ll try.<\/p>\n<p>The man will literally work not just with, but <i>for<\/i> other states\u00a0<i>\u201cthe CIA on a freelance basis\u201d,<\/i>\u00a0so for all he\u2019s something of a British stereotype and loves his traditions I don\u2019t have him down as a Little Englander in way shape or form. I reckon he\u2019ll work with\/for anyone if it achieves his aims, and\u00a0certain EU benefits would arguably make his shady MI6\/government work easier (intelligence sharing, Europol, European arrest warrant, etc etc). That makes me think he\u2019d be favour of staying put in the EU. Plus 28 member states = all the more easily accessible strings to pull for the British Government himself.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what he\u2019d <i>do <\/i>about the referendum<i>, <\/i>but maybe if Mycroft was around and it suited him we wouldn\u2019t be having it in the first place. You know what he\u2019s like.<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/4b40767b06ae2afda5d67fe2ceb721fa\/tumblr_inline_o8h45lAy0w1sbhkqc_500.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mycroft against Brexit \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/f58e083ef04e2c853f883fd824c4a89f\/tumblr_inline_o8h6cny1SV1sbhkqc_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember:\u00a0vote Remain today, it\u2019s what Mycroft Holmes would want<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thediogenes: thediogenes: consulting-queer: thediogenes: It\u2019s almost impossible for me to answer this without going off on one about politics but er, I\u2019ll try. The man will literally work not just with, but for other states\u00a0\u201cthe CIA on a freelance basis\u201d,\u00a0so for all he\u2019s something of a British stereotype and loves his traditions I don\u2019t have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/23\/what-would-mycroft-do-about-the-eu-referendum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What would Mycroft do about the EU referendum?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[559,12006,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}