{"id":40798,"date":"2018-02-26T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40798"},"modified":"2018-02-26T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:36:48","slug":"on-the-balance-of-both-probabilities-and-economic-and-political-sanity-jeremy-corbyn-did-a-good-mornings-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/26\/on-the-balance-of-both-probabilities-and-economic-and-political-sanity-jeremy-corbyn-did-a-good-mornings-work\/","title":{"rendered":"On the balance of both probabilities and economic and political sanity Jeremy Corbyn  did a good morning&#8217;s work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2018\/feb\/26\/brexit-tories-lash-out-at-corbyn-as-he-backs-staying-in-customs-union-with-eu-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this sidebar from the Guardian<\/a> at 1.30pm today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/26\/on-the-balance-of-both-probabilities-and-economic-and-political-sanity-jeremy-corbyn-did-a-good-mornings-work\/screen-shot-2018-02-26-at-13-30-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40799\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-26-at-13.30.10-414x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-26-at-13.30.10-414x1024.png 414w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-26-at-13.30.10-121x300.png 121w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-26-at-13.30.10-162x400.png 162w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-26-at-13.30.10.png 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the sidebar had been just a little longer it would also have shown that the Institute of directors were also in favour of what Labour was saying.<\/p>\n<p>I think we can safely assume that most governments in Europe would also welcome\u00a0 Labour's announcement.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, whilst I tend to agree that the announcement\u00a0 does not go far enough,\u00a0 because problems in Ireland will remain, the reality is that\u00a0 this announcement gets a thumbs up from just about everybody barring\u00a0 the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party, the DUP and, I presume, UKIP (as if that now matters), plus Kate Hooey and maybe Dennis Skinner.<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0 balance of both probabilities and economic and political sanity that makes it a pretty good morning's work by Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this sidebar from the Guardian at 1.30pm today: If the sidebar had been just a little longer it would also have shown that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/26\/on-the-balance-of-both-probabilities-and-economic-and-political-sanity-jeremy-corbyn-did-a-good-mornings-work\/\"><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":[44,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798","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=40798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}