{"id":43205,"date":"2018-09-29T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T08:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43205"},"modified":"2018-09-29T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T08:10:35","slug":"might-theresa-may-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/29\/might-theresa-may-tell-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Might Theresa May tell the truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an editorial in the Guardian this morning that suggests Theresa May should tell the truth on Brexit. I presume that whoever wrote it was not serious. After all, what would that involve?<\/p>\n<p>Admitting that the Tories have always been wrong to focus on this issue?<\/p>\n<p>That Cameroon was wrong to call a referndum?<\/p>\n<p>That the referendum question was wrong?<\/p>\n<p>That the Leave campaign was corrupt?<\/p>\n<p>And the Remain campaign inept?<\/p>\n<p>That May\u2019s redlines were in all the wrong places?<\/p>\n<p>That Article 50 notice should not have been given until its meaning was clear?<\/p>\n<p>That May appointed the wrong people to negotiate?<\/p>\n<p>That she had no one better to negotiate?<\/p>\n<p>That she herself was not up to the job?<\/p>\n<p>That no one in the Tory party gave a thought to Ireland?<\/p>\n<p>Or Scotland, come to that?<\/p>\n<p>That this policy will wreck the UK economically?<\/p>\n<p>As it has already any remaining form of diplomatic power the UK had?<\/p>\n<p>And that people will be worse off, in part by their choice but much more as a result of her interpretation of that choice?<\/p>\n<p>That she has undermined the very sovereignty she claimed was so important?<\/p>\n<p>And most likely destroyed the UK as a nation?<\/p>\n<p>That if people thought Cameron was bad then she is so much worse?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what truth would require.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an editorial in the Guardian this morning that suggests Theresa May should tell the truth on Brexit. I presume that whoever wrote it<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/29\/might-theresa-may-tell-the-truth\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43205","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=43205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}