{"id":94115,"date":"2026-07-20T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94115"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:37:59","slug":"so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/20\/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should, I suppose, write a political obituary on departures from government of Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Peter Kyle, Liz Kendall and Steve Reed, but why?<\/p>\n<p>Each and every one of them failed.<\/p>\n<p>They were all neoliberal to their core.<\/p>\n<p>They all failed to put the interests of the people of this country at the epicentre of their politics.<\/p>\n<p>None of them appeared to have any understanding of what the Labour Party that they claim they represented should really be about based on its history.<\/p>\n<p>So, without exception, their departure from the political scene, to which I hope they never return in high office, is a cause for mild celebration, tempered by the fact that their replacements might be no better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should, I suppose, write a political obituary on departures from government of Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Peter Kyle, Liz Kendall and Steve Reed, but<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/20\/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-goodbye\/\"><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":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94115","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=94115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94116,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94115\/revisions\/94116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}