{"id":93291,"date":"2026-06-19T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93291"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:10:40","slug":"labour-dithering-indifference-incompetence-and-prevarication-rule-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/19\/labour-dithering-indifference-incompetence-and-prevarication-rule-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour: dithering indifference, incompetence and prevarication rule the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14.00, and this is what we know.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer is not going. I believe him.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham has no idea what to do, and wants 100 days to work it out. I believe him: he does not know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet are showing no sign of moving. Convictions and decisions are beyond them.<\/p>\n<p>The neoliberal circus is delighted with Burnham\u2019s choice of advisors: nothing is going to change. He has made that clear.<\/p>\n<p>Dithering indifference, incompetence and prevarication \u00a0is the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p>True New Labour, then. Everyone, only worrying ability themselves and their CV, too worried to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Without exception they suffer internalised neoliberalism. \u00a0See yesterday's video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14.00, and this is what we know. Starmer is not going. I believe him. Burnham has no idea what to do, and wants 100 days<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/19\/labour-dithering-indifference-incompetence-and-prevarication-rule-the-day\/\"><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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93291","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=93291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93292,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93291\/revisions\/93292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}