{"id":14754,"date":"2012-03-23T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2012-03-23T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T08:49:12","slug":"mr-murphy-is-the-ultimate-political-compass-or-so-its-been-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/23\/mr-murphy-is-the-ultimate-political-compass-or-so-its-been-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Murphy is the ultimate political compass (or so it&#8217;s been said)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2118244\/BUDGET-2012-George-Osbornes-brilliant-budget-shows-Coalition-truly-turned-Tory.html#ixzz1pvZmYwks\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Singelton in the Mail:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What a fantastic Budget. Richard Murphy, the pro-tax darling of the trade unions, is enraged by it. Indeed, I could see the steam erupting from his ears as I sat watching it with him at the BBC this lunchtime. And that is a really good sign. You see, Mr Murphy is the ultimate political compass: if he's pointed in one direction, you'll never go wrong by going in the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compliments come in the strangest of forms.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Singelton was on Radio 2 with me on budget day and I have to say I thought throughout his\u00a0commentary\u00a0\"what is this rather naive young man who's never been out in the real world doing talking about things of which he has no knowledge?\". Then I realised that made him as well qualified as Cameron and Osborne. And that's really scary.<\/p>\n<p>It also somewhat undermines the value of the compliment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alex Singelton in the Mail: What a fantastic Budget. Richard Murphy, the pro-tax darling of the trade unions, is enraged by it. Indeed, I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/23\/mr-murphy-is-the-ultimate-political-compass-or-so-its-been-said\/\"><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":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","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=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}