{"id":35580,"date":"2016-12-02T06:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=35580"},"modified":"2016-12-02T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T06:03:56","slug":"thoughts-on-richmond-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/02\/thoughts-on-richmond-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Richmond Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lib Dems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/dec\/02\/lib-dems-unseat-zac-goldsmith-in-richmond-park-byelection\" target=\"_blank\">have scored one of their historic by-election victories in Richmond Park<\/a> overnight. Some initial reactions are appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>First, don't say Brexit will not change the landscape of UK politics: it will.<\/p>\n<p>Second, don't say the referendum was the last word on the issue: it clearly was not.<\/p>\n<p>Third, don't say an electoral pact will not work: it clearly will. And remember when coming to that conclusion that UKIP did not stand.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, don't be racist; the vast majority of people do not like it.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, don't presume Labour will gain from this. I know this was Richmond Park, but getting 3.7% of the vote still suggests that people felt it had nothing to say.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth, do take a little hope from this. Not masses, because that would be unrealistic. But a little, nonetheless. There is still a debate to be had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lib Dems have scored one of their historic by-election victories in Richmond Park overnight. Some initial reactions are appropriate. First, don&#8217;t say Brexit will<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/12\/02\/thoughts-on-richmond-park\/\"><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-35580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35580","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=35580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}