{"id":5826,"date":"2010-01-15T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:33:38","slug":"tories-to-cut-aid-to-pay-for-defence-in-new-colonial-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/15\/tories-to-cut-aid-to-pay-for-defence-in-new-colonial-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories to cut aid to pay for defence in new colonial policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/864b12d2-013f-11df-8c54-00144feabdc0.html\">FT.com \/ UK \/ Politics &amp; policy - Tories plan defence budget overhaul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tories are announcing a defence policy today. As the FT notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most controversial elements is likely to be the proposals to divert aid spending to support a new &ldquo;stabilisation and reconstruction force&rdquo;, which will be overseen by the national security council.<\/p>\n<p>The new force will include soldiers, diplomats and aid workers in a joint working structure reminiscent of Britain&rsquo;s former Colonial Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now we know how the Tories will meet their obligation to aid: they'll relabel defence as aid and ensure it's aim is to promote British mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p>It would be impossible to make up if they weren't planning it.<\/p>\n<p>It's sick that this is their idea of development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ UK \/ Politics &amp; policy &#8211; Tories plan defence budget overhaul. The Tories are announcing a defence policy today. As the FT notes:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/15\/tories-to-cut-aid-to-pay-for-defence-in-new-colonial-policy\/\"><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":[96,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","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=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}