{"id":11782,"date":"2011-09-08T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T10:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11782"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:47:43","slug":"can-we-really-trust-the-economy-to-a-man-quite-as-stupid-as-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/08\/can-we-really-trust-the-economy-to-a-man-quite-as-stupid-as-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we really trust the economy to a man quite as stupid as this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirror wrote a very good commentary on George Osborne's speech when accepting the GQ Magazine Politician of the Year award this week.<\/p>\n<p><span>To describe Osborne's comments as juvenile is being kind to them. I won't repeat them: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mirror.co.uk\/article?a=m4:23404138\" target=\"_blank\">read about it here.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we had Cameron making juvenile jokes in the Commons at a female MP's expense.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have the Chancellor making stupid jokes in public.<\/p>\n<p>Can we trust these people to run the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirror wrote a very good commentary on George Osborne&#8217;s speech when accepting the GQ Magazine Politician of the Year award this week. To describe<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/08\/can-we-really-trust-the-economy-to-a-man-quite-as-stupid-as-this\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}