{"id":71799,"date":"2023-09-12T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71799"},"modified":"2023-09-12T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:50:23","slug":"the-tories-are-destroying-the-state-by-making-working-for-it-profoundly-unattractive-or-unaffordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/09\/12\/the-tories-are-destroying-the-state-by-making-working-for-it-profoundly-unattractive-or-unaffordable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories are destroying the state by making working for it profoundly unattractive or unaffordable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noted these adjacent headlines on The Guardian homepage this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_1198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_1198.jpeg 459w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_1198-179x300.jpeg 179w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_1198-239x400.jpeg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/>The message could not be clearer. The NHS and state education cannot recruit or retain key new staff.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, what this means is that the neoliberal ploy of destroying the state by starving it of resources is working, just as ministers want.<\/p>\n<p>Once they tried to starve governments of money by launching assaults from tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>Now they deny the government the people it needs to recruit by making working for the state profoundly unattractive, or unaffordable.<\/p>\n<p>The price of this is going to be enormous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted these adjacent headlines on The Guardian homepage this morning: The message could not be clearer. The NHS and state education cannot recruit or<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/09\/12\/the-tories-are-destroying-the-state-by-making-working-for-it-profoundly-unattractive-or-unaffordable\/\"><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":[96,14,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71799","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=71799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71801,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71799\/revisions\/71801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}