{"id":9008,"date":"2011-03-01T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2011-03-01T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T14:08:14","slug":"youre-either-on-or-off-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/01\/youre-either-on-or-off-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re either on or off the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/feb\/27\/coalition-coup-sleeping-public\">John Haris in the Guardian,<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every lurch to the free-market right shreds the idea that the Lib Dems are there to pull the Tories back to the centre. With Lib Dem backbench MPs and such grandees as Shirley Williams, I keep having the same conversation. They say they oppose some policies, but are heartened by others, and all is just about OK. In response, the old hippie phrase comes to mind: you are either on the bus, or off the bus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He's right.<\/p>\n<p>Get off the bus now.<\/p>\n<p>Or pay the consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From John Haris in the Guardian, yesterday: Every lurch to the free-market right shreds the idea that the Lib Dems are there to pull the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/01\/youre-either-on-or-off-the-bus\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","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=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}