{"id":90584,"date":"2026-03-03T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90584"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:07:17","slug":"dont-change-the-politicians-change-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/03\/dont-change-the-politicians-change-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t change the politicians: change the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just published this short video on YouTube and many other channels.<\/p>\n<p>It is my reaction to what Rachel Reeves had to say today.<\/p>\n<p>If you like it, please share it far and wide - because that helps get the message out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Britain is broken \u2013 and our politics can\u2019t fix it\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2TvCI_PGEyQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am afraid I do not have a trnascript. It has been hard enough just getting it out, having encountered YouTube issues (as you will note from the quality), the internet and failed trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just published this short video on YouTube and many other channels. It is my reaction to what Rachel Reeves had to say today.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/03\/dont-change-the-politicians-change-the-system\/\"><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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584","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=90584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90587,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions\/90587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}