{"id":20791,"date":"2013-05-16T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T06:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20791"},"modified":"2013-05-16T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T06:28:54","slug":"there-is-only-one-real-question-at-the-next-election-which-is-how-will-you-deliver-full-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/16\/there-is-only-one-real-question-at-the-next-election-which-is-how-will-you-deliver-full-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"There is only one real question at the next election &#8211; which is &#8220;how will you deliver full employment?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate about the next election seems to be focussing on Europe, immigration, debt, deficit, cuts, welfare and the like.<\/p>\n<p>They may be important. But they all miss the big issue - which is that there is only one question of importance at the next\u00a0election\u00a0and no ons is addressing it because none of the mainstream parties or UKIP have a clue how to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>That question is \"how are you going to deliver full employment?\"<\/p>\n<p>Nothing\u00a0else matters.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0full employment we would not have an\u00a0immigration\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n<p>With full\u00a0employment\u00a0people could afford homes - which\u00a0would\u00a0be being built.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0full employment we would see the deficit disappear as people paid tax and did not claim ebewnfits.<\/p>\n<p>With full employment we'd have fewer people using the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>With full employment our children would\u00a0have\u00a0hope and\u00a0education\u00a0could really deliver.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0full employment anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>But right now no one is seeking to deliver full employment.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate about the next election seems to be focussing on Europe, immigration, debt, deficit, cuts, welfare and the like. They may be important. But<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/16\/there-is-only-one-real-question-at-the-next-election-which-is-how-will-you-deliver-full-employment\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20791","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=20791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}