{"id":13167,"date":"2011-12-09T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T08:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13167"},"modified":"2011-12-09T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T08:36:36","slug":"strangely-conflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/09\/strangely-conflicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangely conflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in one sense I am pleased the UK is holding out against some aspects of the EU deal proposed by Merkel and Sarkozy. As I have argued, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/ourkingdom\/richard-murphy\/merkel-and-sarkozy-are-proposing-catastrophe-that-will-destroy-left-across\" target=\"_blank\">that deal is dire for\u00a0democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time I loathe his reasoning - that puts the City of London at the core of concerns.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves me\u00a0strangely\u00a0conflicted.<\/p>\n<p>What is so obviously true is that with low interest rates, mass unemployment and a crisis of hopelessness sweeping Europe, whilst we know that at the same the environment is being trashed, the we need a Green New Deal for Europe.<\/p>\n<p>And that such a\u00a0Green New Deal for Europe has to reflect, respect and even encourage diversity within a framework of mutual respect on which we can all agree.<\/p>\n<p>That's so far from what's on offer. No wonder the\u00a0politicians in Brussels\u00a0are failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in one sense I am pleased the UK is holding out against some aspects of the EU deal proposed by Merkel and Sarkozy.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/09\/strangely-conflicted\/\"><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":[35,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167","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=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}