{"id":23639,"date":"2014-01-06T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23639"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:23:51","slug":"osborne-five-admissions-that-hes-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/06\/osborne-five-admissions-that-hes-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Osborne&#8217;s five admissions that he&#8217;s failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/jan\/06\/george-osborne-more-cuts-year-hard-truths\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian has reported this morning that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain is facing a year of hard truths in 2014 as more cuts are needed and the economy still has big underlying problems,\u00a0George Osborne\u00a0will warn on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a grim message to start the new year, the chancellor will say the \"bad news\" is that there is still a long way to go before a full recovery, as he sets out a five-point plan to help the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So three and a half years in Osborne has admitted he has not reformed the economy. That's his first admission of failure.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, he's admitted that all his cuts have so far failed to impact in any significant way on borrowing. And, having taken a lesson in history from Michael Gove he's following the General Haig strategy book: when something has failed once you repeat it again, and again and again whatever the cost. That's his third admission, of bankrupt thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, he said in 2010 the problem would be solved by 2015. Now he admits we have a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>And fifth? His fifth admission is in the messaging. He says there is bad news. It's honest. But it's an admission.<\/p>\n<p>There is no plan, there are just admissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has reported this morning that: Britain is facing a year of hard truths in 2014 as more cuts are needed and the economy<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/06\/osborne-five-admissions-that-hes-failed\/\"><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-23639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639","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=23639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}