{"id":6957,"date":"2010-05-26T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:20:31","slug":"the-new-politics-needs-a-realignment-of-the-mind-it-needs-caroline-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/26\/the-new-politics-needs-a-realignment-of-the-mind-it-needs-caroline-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"The new politics needs a realignment of the mind. It needs Caroline Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/may\/25\/caroline-lucas-deficit-neoliberalism\"> The new politics needs a realignment of the mind. It needs Caroline Lucas | David Marquand | Comment is free | The Guardian <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As David Marquand writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No single thinker, party or school of thought offers a complete answer, or anything like it [to the current crisis]. Answers will have to be hammered out in open-minded dialogue, between all those who accept that tinkering is not enough, across the lines of party and creed. The need, in fact, is for a realignment of the mind, socialist in economics and republican in politics. In such a realignment the Green movement must surely have a central place, along with radicals and dissenters from all parties and none. Caroline Lucas, over to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cue, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neweconomics.org\/projects\/green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Green New Deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the UK Green Party, is a colleague of mine in the Green New Deal group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new politics needs a realignment of the mind. It needs Caroline Lucas | David Marquand | Comment is free | The Guardian . As<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/26\/the-new-politics-needs-a-realignment-of-the-mind-it-needs-caroline-lucas\/\"><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":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","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=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}