{"id":22549,"date":"2013-09-30T19:44:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22549"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:44:52","slug":"why-wont-labour-say-it-ran-a-budget-surplus-and-ask-when-the-tories-last-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/30\/why-wont-labour-say-it-ran-a-budget-surplus-and-ask-when-the-tories-last-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Why won&#8217;t Labour say it ran a budget surplus and ask when the Tories last did?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osborne has said he will run a government surplus is re-elected. If he does it will be a fluke.<\/p>\n<p>There has been only seven years when that happened in the last 54 and only 4 were coordinated and planned, by labour, at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they ran a surplus when the sun was shining. What baffles me is why they won't say so:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22550\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-09-30 at 19.42.16\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16.png\" width=\"422\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16.png 469w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16-223x225.png 223w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-19.42.16-130x132.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osborne has said he will run a government surplus is re-elected. If he does it will be a fluke. There has been only seven years<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/30\/why-wont-labour-say-it-ran-a-budget-surplus-and-ask-when-the-tories-last-did\/\"><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-22549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22549","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=22549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}