{"id":37232,"date":"2017-05-17T07:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T06:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37232"},"modified":"2017-05-17T07:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T06:33:40","slug":"the-evidence-that-the-uk-is-heading-for-a-nasty-downturn-grows-by-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/17\/the-evidence-that-the-uk-is-heading-for-a-nasty-downturn-grows-by-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The evidence that the UK is heading for a nasty downturn grows by the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/may\/15\/county-court-judgments-bank-of-england-mps-debt\">Guardian<\/a> notes this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 300,000 debt judgments were filed against individuals in English and Welsh county courts in the first three months of 2017, the highest quarterly figure for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the Registry Trust show a 35% rise compared with the first quarter of last year in county court judgments (CCJs) against borrowers who found themselves unable to pay their debts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The evidence that the UK is heading for a nasty downturn grows by the day. And people \u00a0will be voting to make it worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes this morning: Nearly 300,000 debt judgments were filed against individuals in English and Welsh county courts in the first three months<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/05\/17\/the-evidence-that-the-uk-is-heading-for-a-nasty-downturn-grows-by-the-day\/\"><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-37232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37232","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=37232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}