{"id":54678,"date":"2020-12-24T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54678"},"modified":"2020-12-24T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:13:08","slug":"the-christmas-eve-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/24\/the-christmas-eve-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Eve Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write we do not know the details of any supposed Brexit deal. But I wrote this on Twitter last night and despite its brevity I think it likely to summarise anything I might say:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Johnson is going to want to call and Brexit deal \u2018The Christmas Eve Agreement\u2019, to parody the Good Friday Agreement. But there the comparison will end. The GFA brought peace and greater unity. His deal will bring turmoil and the end of the Union. That will be his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1341881595070980098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To say this will be a hollow achievement is likely to be very kind to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write we do not know the details of any supposed Brexit deal. But I wrote this on Twitter last night and despite its<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/24\/the-christmas-eve-agreement\/\"><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":[44,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54678","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=54678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}