{"id":33673,"date":"2016-06-10T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=33673"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:38:08","slug":"the-conservatives-may-not-be-able-to-govern-any-more-but-that-was-never-the-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/10\/the-conservatives-may-not-be-able-to-govern-any-more-but-that-was-never-the-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservatives may not be able to govern any more, but that was never the aim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/acdfb752-2d90-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html?ftcamp=crm\/email\/\/nbe\/UKMorningHeadlines\/product#axzz4B3Rmjvv0\" target=\"_blank\">FT has noted this morning<\/a> in an article on Conservative Party infighting that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A party so badly riven could struggle to govern the country in its remaining four years in office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That misses the point as much as Michael Portillo did recently when saying the Conservatives had no clue why they had wanted power.<\/p>\n<p>They didn't: power itself was enough. Governing was never the issue and never has been for the most successful electoral machine in democratic history. The aim has always been threefold.<\/p>\n<p>First to stop others getting power.<\/p>\n<p>Second to preserve the wealth of Tory donors be preventing those who might attack it from getting power.<\/p>\n<p>Third, to hide the continuing accumulation of that wealth from view.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else is a side show. After all, at its very core Conservative belief is that government and so governing is \u00a0a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>And because that is the case the Conservatives are the one party where such rifts might, possibly, be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has noted this morning in an article on Conservative Party infighting that: A party so badly riven could struggle to govern the country<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/06\/10\/the-conservatives-may-not-be-able-to-govern-any-more-but-that-was-never-the-aim\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673","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=33673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}