{"id":43071,"date":"2018-09-12T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43071"},"modified":"2018-09-12T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:19:02","slug":"states-rarely-commit-suicide-it-feels-like-the-uk-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/12\/states-rarely-commit-suicide-it-feels-like-the-uk-is\/","title":{"rendered":"States rarely commit suicide: it feels like the UK is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I leave the UK for a couple of days it feels like the sanest thing anyone might do.<\/p>\n<p>Our politicians still appear to be the only people who do not think we are facing a political, constitutional and economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Our minority government is facing outright rebellion from coming on for half its backbencher who are not on the government payroll.<\/p>\n<p>And where is the Opposition?<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us are feeling powerless and even helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we need meltdown before the sanity of a second referendum is offered but I have little confidence about the outcome of that.<\/p>\n<p>States rarely commit suicide. The UK feels like it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I leave the UK for a couple of days it feels like the sanest thing anyone might do. Our politicians still appear to be<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/12\/states-rarely-commit-suicide-it-feels-like-the-uk-is\/\"><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-43071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071","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=43071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}