{"id":40719,"date":"2018-02-20T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40719"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:46:33","slug":"david-davis-must-think-were-all-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/20\/david-davis-must-think-were-all-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"David Davis must think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Davis is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/feb\/19\/david-davis-brexit-britain-mad-max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going to say<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They fear that Brexit could lead to an Anglo-Saxon race to the bottom. With Britain plunged into a Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction. These fears about a race to the bottom are based on nothing, not history, not intention, nor interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I could believe him but I know I will stand alongside the millions who do not.<\/p>\n<p>If Brexit was about anything for those who supported it then it was about deregulation. Every comment by every minister ever since has suggested that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n<p>David Davis \u00a0must think we\u2019re all stupid.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Davis is going to say today: They fear that Brexit could lead to an Anglo-Saxon race to the bottom. With Britain plunged into a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/20\/david-davis-must-think-were-all-stupid\/\"><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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719","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=40719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}