{"id":55559,"date":"2021-02-16T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=55559"},"modified":"2021-02-16T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T07:12:03","slug":"the-right-wing-want-a-nothern-bang-but-their-proposals-look-like-a-northern-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/16\/the-right-wing-want-a-nothern-bang-but-their-proposals-look-like-a-northern-whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"The right-wing want a Nothern Bang but their proposals look like a Northern Whimper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<p>Margaret Thatcher's favourite think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, has published a new report suggesting what they call a Northern\u00a0Bang - aimed at the Tory Red Wall seats.<\/p>\n<p>Let's ignore the fact that they want to favour these seats over those in Wales,\u00a0Northern Ireland and Scotland. Instead let's note that this is all the usual right-wing nonsense, including relaxing planning rules, providing state subsidies to big, foreign-owned businesses whilst ignoring those already based here, and reformed tax reliefs, for which there is absolutely no evidence of success in encouraging new investment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Northern\u00a0Whimper delivered by a think tank right out of ideas, but which still knows that its real purpose is to shovel wealth upwards from taxpayers to those who own and run large companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The right-wing want a Northern Bang but their proposals look like a Northern Whimper\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m2I80Dcktn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The CPS report is here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cps.org.uk\/research\/a-northern-big-bang-unleashing-investment-in-the-north\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cps.org.uk\/research\/a-northern-big-bang-unleashing-investment-in-the-north\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613504344590000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFv0vb0_7TXywv_P-Nu_GIHx6hdFg\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">https:\/\/www.cps.org.uk\/<wbr \/>research\/a-northern-big-bang-<wbr \/>unleashing-investment-in-the-<wbr \/>north\/<\/a> and my proposals on capital allowances are here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/what-now-for-capital-allowances-a-note-on-uk-tax-reform-after-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/what-now-for-capital-allowances-a-note-on-uk-tax-reform-after-coronavirus\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613504344590000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYsGou8XOsdIiKVTrfBFksg4qnlg\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.<wbr \/>uk\/Blog\/what-now-for-capital-<wbr \/>allowances-a-note-on-uk-tax-<wbr \/>reform-after-coronavirus\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s favourite think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, has published a new report suggesting what they call a Northern\u00a0Bang &#8211; aimed at the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/16\/the-right-wing-want-a-nothern-bang-but-their-proposals-look-like-a-northern-whimper\/\"><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":[35,74,106,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-green-new-deal","category-politics","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55559","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=55559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}