{"id":3928,"date":"2015-11-25T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2015-11-25T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:17:01","slug":"whats-so-bad-about-politican-u-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Bad About Politican U-Turns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThere&#39;s a lot that can be said about today&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-34915218\">spending review<\/a>, and I dare say people are saying some things about it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut my chosen topic is that &quot;U-turn&quot; that the media keep banging on about. What&#39;s so bad about listening and changing a bad policy?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the moment, we have a political environment where changing your mind is seen as somehow irresponsible and indecisive; yet what we have hear is a chancellor who has decided that the opposition to his tax credit cuts (which will disproportionally hit the poor) were opposed for genuinely good reasons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIs re-assessing a bad policy in the light of heavy opposition really a bad thing?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOf course Osborne has sneakily got the cuts in anyway;&nbsp;all his welfare savings that he planned to get by punishing the poor for their feckless ways are still going to come about because he has still cut &quot;Universal Credit&quot; which new claiments get. It&#39;s existing claiments of &quot;tax credits&quot; who get their reprieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s a lot that can be said about today&#39;s spending review, and I dare say people are saying some things about it. But my chosen topic is that &quot;U-turn&quot; that the media keep banging on about. What&#39;s so bad about listening and changing a bad policy? At the moment, we have a political environment where <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3928' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-12-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-11m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}