{"id":4991,"date":"2009-10-02T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2009-10-02T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T14:10:32","slug":"cameron%e2%80%99s-ten-pledges-the-pretense-is-over-thatcherism-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/02\/cameron%e2%80%99s-ten-pledges-the-pretense-is-over-thatcherism-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron&rsquo;s ten pledges: the pretense is over, Thatcherism is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2009\/10\/camerons-ten-pledges-the-pretense-is-over-thatcherism-is-back\/\">Cameron&rsquo;s ten pledges: the pretense is over, Thatcherism is back! | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Lent on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/2664870\/David-Cameron-My-blueprint-for-Britain.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron's 10 election pledge<\/a>s - oddly enough delivered in the Sun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you needed to sum up these pledges, the following wouldn&rsquo;t be an unfair precis: deep spending cuts, tax cuts for the rich, tough on long-term benefit claimants, not much to offer the newly unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>Good to see that Cameron&rsquo;s progressive and compassionate conservatives have finally made that break with their Thatcherite past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That's about it. But in case you want more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the fact that he says the Conservative Party has changed and is now &ldquo;paying attention to the big issues of the future&rdquo;, there is not a single mention in his pledges of the environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good, isn't it? The man is beyond belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron&rsquo;s ten pledges: the pretense is over, Thatcherism is back! | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Adam Lent on Cameron&#8217;s 10<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/02\/cameron%e2%80%99s-ten-pledges-the-pretense-is-over-thatcherism-is-back\/\"><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":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}