{"id":45667,"date":"2019-07-28T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45667"},"modified":"2019-07-28T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T08:30:46","slug":"what-chance-of-stopping-five-years-of-triumphal-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/28\/what-chance-of-stopping-five-years-of-triumphal-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"What chance of stopping five years of triumphal racism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Mason <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulmasonnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote this on Twitter<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until Johnson unleashed his cabinet of libertarians and semi-fascists you could hedge bets on Corbyn's current strategy: now that's over - there has to be an alliance of the centre and the left to stop Brexit follow[ed] by 5 years of triumphal racism<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I doubt [simple] opposition could create such an alliance. It has to be a positive alliance, for the Green New Deal, constitutional reform, respect for devolved government, pro strong relations with Europe, and for equality. Then it may have a chance, and a manifesto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are the chances? A phrase involving hen's teeth comes to mind, I fear.<\/p>\n<p>But I am glad some who have given Corbyn the benefit of the doubt are now rethinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Mason wrote this on Twitter yesterday: Until Johnson unleashed his cabinet of libertarians and semi-fascists you could hedge bets on Corbyn&#8217;s current strategy: now<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/28\/what-chance-of-stopping-five-years-of-triumphal-racism\/\"><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-45667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45667","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=45667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}