{"id":40806,"date":"2018-02-27T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40806"},"modified":"2018-02-27T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T06:28:00","slug":"the-shambles-at-the-heart-of-british-politics-continues-unabated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/27\/the-shambles-at-the-heart-of-british-politics-continues-unabated\/","title":{"rendered":"The shambles at the heart of British politics continues unabated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corbyn might have <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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made an astute political move yesterday<\/a>. He got the crowd behind him. He even got George Osborne behind him.\u00a0But let\u2019s be clear what he did not do.<\/p>\n<p>He did not tackle the issue of migration. That was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>He did not tackle the issue of Ireland: a customs union is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to solve that. Only the single market prevents economic and greater mayhem there.<\/p>\n<p>And it may be\u00a0\u00a0that he is backing a parliamentary amendment to supposedly achieve his goal that is not legally binding, so why take the risk?<\/p>\n<p>In that case was yesterday just a manouevre? In reality, did it have substance? It may have looked astute but was it enough? \u00a0I am not convinced as yet.<\/p>\n<p>What we can say for sure is that Corbyn did not lay out a viable plan for Brexit yesterday. In that sense the shambles at the heart of British politics continues unabated. I welcome a step in the right direction. But things have to go a lot further as yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corbyn might have made an astute political move yesterday. He got the crowd behind him. He even got George Osborne behind him.\u00a0But let\u2019s be clear<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/27\/the-shambles-at-the-heart-of-british-politics-continues-unabated\/\"><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-40806","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\/40806","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=40806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}