{"id":8614,"date":"2011-01-28T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:33:47","slug":"the-chancellor-should-plan-for-the-worst-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/28\/the-chancellor-should-plan-for-the-worst-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chancellor should plan for the worst right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/886ec5a8-2a52-11e0-b906-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1CJxCoIP5\">Martin Wolf in the FT this morning said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The inflexibility of George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, is a political gift to the Labour opposition and Ed Balls, Labour&rsquo;s new shadow chancellor. Just hoping for the best is simply irrational. The chancellor should plan for the worst, right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough said.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wolf in the FT this morning said: The inflexibility of George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, is a political gift to the Labour<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/28\/the-chancellor-should-plan-for-the-worst-right-now\/\"><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":[124,35,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condems","category-economics","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","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=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}