{"id":714365,"date":"2010-04-12T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.economist.com,21005985"},"modified":"2010-04-12T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:42:28","slug":"promises-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714365","title":{"rendered":"Promises, promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS is a snazzy animated manifesto from Britain&#8217;s Labour Party:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SCO-KwYpH0M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So much nice stuff the Labour Party plans to do for the country. No mention, however, of how to pay for it all. This might not be a problem if the conservatives weren&#8217;t making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/Video\/Conservatives_TV.aspx?id=cca5194d-1617-4e27-bbee-fdb10e950c5d\">budget issues<\/a> a key part of their campaign. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/News\/News_stories\/2010\/02\/Osborne_outlines_eight_benchmarks_for_economic_growth.aspx\">called<\/a> the prime minister a man who &#8220;will say anything and spend anything to cling on to power&#8221;. That dovetails remarkably well with the laundry-list-of-programmes approach in the manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, people like programmes, and they dislike measures to address the deficit. Sadly, you can&#8217;t balance the budget with taxes everyone loves, like those on super-strong alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS is a snazzy animated manifesto from Britain&#8217;s Labour Party: So much nice stuff the Labour Party plans to do for the country. No mention, however, of how to pay for it all. This might not be a problem if the conservatives weren&#8217;t making budget issues a key part of their campaign. Shadow Chancellor George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZQ1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}