{"id":37161,"date":"2017-05-10T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37161"},"modified":"2017-05-10T07:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T06:27:55","slug":"setting-out-to-fail-and-controlling-the-consequences-the-real-purpose-of-the-2017-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/10\/setting-out-to-fail-and-controlling-the-consequences-the-real-purpose-of-the-2017-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting out to fail and controlling the consequences: the real purpose of the 2017 General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Horrocks, who has been a long term commentator and occasional guest contributor on this blog, has an article under the above title on Progressive Pulse. I recommend it. I think his analysis - that May called an election because she expects to fail on Brexit - is right. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivepulse.org\/general-election-2017\/setting-out-to-fail-and-controlling-the-consequences-the-real-purpose-of-the-2017-general-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The post can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Horrocks, who has been a long term commentator and occasional guest contributor on this blog, has an article under the above title on Progressive<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/10\/setting-out-to-fail-and-controlling-the-consequences-the-real-purpose-of-the-2017-general-election\/\"><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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37161","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=37161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}