{"id":16704,"date":"2012-08-03T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T07:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16704"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T07:34:33","slug":"almost-three-years-of-paralysis-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/03\/almost-three-years-of-paralysis-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost three years of paralysis to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's almost three years of\u00a0political paralysis on the cards if the current Coalition sees out its five year term, as it's promised to do. Why? Because, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/david-cameron\/9447897\/David-Cameron-retreats-on-House-of-Lords-reform.html\" target=\"_blank\">as the Telegraph reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Cameron is to abandon plans to reform the House of Lords after failing to win over Conservative rebels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LibDems are bound to react by blocking parliamentary seat reform (which was always a terrible idea, anyway). And the\u00a0consequence will be\u00a0political paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>The price of that will be enormous. Not least because millions of people will remain\u00a0unemployed when action\u00a0should be taken to address the recession we're in.\u00a0Precisely\u00a0because the economy and the people who're suffering as a consequence of it\u00a0haven't been the focus of attention, and\u00a0Westminster\u00a0shenanigans have been, we're now in a mess.<\/p>\n<p>This is a victory for the small\u00a0minded\u00a0bullies of the right for which we'll all pay an\u00a0enormous cost - unless you happen to be in the 0.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s almost three years of\u00a0political paralysis on the cards if the current Coalition sees out its five year term, as it&#8217;s promised to do. Why?<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/03\/almost-three-years-of-paralysis-to-come\/\"><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-16704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704","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=16704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}