{"id":74980,"date":"2024-04-10T16:58:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74980"},"modified":"2024-04-10T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:58:13","slug":"labour-is-outsourcing-policy-to-the-city-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/10\/labour-is-outsourcing-policy-to-the-city-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour is outsourcing policy to The City establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old friend, Ian Fraser, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/9781780272771\/Shredded-RBS-Bank-Broke-Britain-1780272774\/plp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who wrote a great book<\/a> on the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, reminded me of one of my own tweets in a post he made on X today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.52.16-550x489.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.52.16-550x489.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.52.16-337x300.png 337w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.52.16-768x683.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.52.16-450x400.png 450w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.52.16.png 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another old friend and occasional colleague, Tim Bush (also a former chartered accountant who left in protest), had this to say in response:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.53.11-550x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.53.11-550x181.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.53.11-768x253.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.53.11-600x198.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-at-16.53.11.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I agree with Tim. There is negligence and contempt written all over this policy, and in the establishment appointments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/10\/why-has-rachel-reeves-appointed-as-her-tax-adviser-a-person-who-has-said-that-ax-is-extortion-and-told-parliament-that-he-was-not-too-worried-about-small-businesses-not-paying-their-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reeves has made on tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old friend, Ian Fraser, who wrote a great book on the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, reminded me of one of my<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/10\/labour-is-outsourcing-policy-to-the-city-establishment\/\"><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":[136,16,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-ethics","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74980","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=74980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74983,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74980\/revisions\/74983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}