{"id":22404,"date":"2013-09-22T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22404"},"modified":"2013-09-22T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T17:44:49","slug":"this-is-not-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/22\/this-is-not-one-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not one nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/economics-blog\/2013\/sep\/22\/uk-growth-london-north-south-divide\" target=\"_blank\">from Larry Elliott's column posted this afternoon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ed Miliband's big idea at last year's Labour conference was One Nation Britain. This is a nice as an aspiration but bears no relation to the country we actually inhabit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enforcing the minimum wage, scrapping the bedroom tax and sacking Atos won't change that.<\/p>\n<p>I'm waiting to hear the ideas that will this week. The ideas that say our official opposition believes that they could make a real difference f entrusted with power.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know they believe in the power of the state to make a difference. But I'm not getting that as yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Larry Elliott&#8217;s column posted this afternoon: Ed Miliband&#8217;s big idea at last year&#8217;s Labour conference was One Nation Britain. This is a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/22\/this-is-not-one-nation\/\"><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-22404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404","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=22404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}