{"id":14051,"date":"2012-02-08T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:34:04","slug":"liberal-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/08\/liberal-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2012\/feb\/08\/liberal-democrat-splinter-protest-coalition\" target=\"_blank\">pleased to see this in the Guardian today:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first Liberal Democrat group openly opposed to the coalition is to be launched at the party's spring conference in Gateshead next month with a warning that the coalition has been a political disaster for the party, as well as a denial of its radical roots.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/gu-facebook.appspot.com\/canvas\/politics\/2012\/feb\/08\/www.liberalleft.org.uk\">Launching a website on Wednesday<\/a>, the group Liberal Left said it hoped to become a rallying point for members opposed to the coalition and those who see the party as a centre-left organisation seeking common cause with Labour, Greens and others on the centre left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has the fight back against the Orange Book begun? I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>I will be at the Gateshead\u00a0Conference, speaking on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to see this in the Guardian today: The first Liberal Democrat group openly opposed to the coalition is to be launched at<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/08\/liberal-left\/\"><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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051","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=14051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}