{"id":8438,"date":"2011-01-14T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2011-01-14T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:51:55","slug":"one-swallow-does-not-a-summer-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/14\/one-swallow-does-not-a-summer-make\/","title":{"rendered":"One swallow does not a summer make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By-elections are fickle things.  No one should over emphasise the impact of any one of them. No government party has  gained a seat in a by-election  since 1982 in the UK.  So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/jan\/14\/oldham-byelection-labour-nick-clegg\">fact that Labour retained Oldham East and Saddleworth<\/a> should not, of itself, be a surprise. That said, the margin of victory was good,  the circumstances suggested Labour should have a difficult time,  and the psychological impact will be significant.  So it is true, one swallow does not a summer make,  but I'm still quietly pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By-elections are fickle things. No one should over emphasise the impact of any one of them. No government party has gained a seat in a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/14\/one-swallow-does-not-a-summer-make\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","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=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}