{"id":83414,"date":"2025-06-25T07:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83414"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:12:46","slug":"the-mess-were-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/25\/the-mess-were-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The mess we&#8217;re in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest from Led by Donkeys.<\/p>\n<p>It tells us what we already know.<\/p>\n<p>But what it also says is that we weren't just taken for a ride by those on the left who have swung so far to the right, but most decidedly by the right itself, including Farage.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn't a conspiracy, and not just because these people are not capable of organising one. Instead, there was a belief in a dogma that was utterly incapable of delivering for us, and that madness is still at the core of the government we have. It's a belief in neoliberalism that has got us to the mess we're in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bR-AXnvunlo?si=2ToPRnUb05NDIF5c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest from Led by Donkeys. It tells us what we already know. But what it also says is that we weren&#8217;t just<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/25\/the-mess-were-in\/\"><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":[215,14,204,35,16,44,203,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-europe","category-fascism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83414","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=83414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83415,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83414\/revisions\/83415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}