{"id":2926,"date":"2011-01-10T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:45:45","slug":"coalition-and-opposition-get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2926","title":{"rendered":"Coalition and Opposition: Get a Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a0key points before and after the election in May 2010, the constituent parts of the Coalition variously said:<\/p>\n<p>There would be no increase in VAT<\/p>\n<p>Child Allowance was safe with them<\/p>\n<p>They would vote against an increase in tuition fees<\/p>\n<p>Bank bonuses would be curbed<\/p>\n<p>The banks must be broken up<\/p>\n<p>There would be a fuel duty regulator to stabilise prices<\/p>\n<p>Rarely can there have been so many failed undertakings in so short a time. That the government is not under attack from\u00a0right, left and centre, is to do with the fact that Labour took critical time out to navel gaze, publish memoirs and elect a leader whom they did not want, who in turn\u00a0has been off to a slow start,\u00a0with has all his top team in shadow\u00a0jobs over which they appear to have little grasp.<\/p>\n<p>Thus Cameron, Clegg et al can bungle, posture and proclaim without delivery or deliver what they said they would abhor. This peculiar dysfunction at the heart of our democracy cannot go on for much longer. The Westminster village and its masters in Whitehall need to pull themselves together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a0key points before and after the election in May 2010, the constituent parts of the Coalition variously said: There would be no increase in VAT Child Allowance was safe with them They would vote against an increase in tuition fees Bank bonuses would be curbed The banks must be broken up There would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}