{"id":111,"date":"2019-07-17T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=111"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:19:41","slug":"no-deal-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/17\/no-deal-is-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No deal&#8221; is easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Philip Hammond, the chancellor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jul\/17\/philip-hammond-terrified-by-jacob-rees-mogg-claim-of-no-deal-brexit-boost\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has said<\/a> it is \u201cterrifying\u201d that one of Boris Johnson\u2019s close allies, Jacob Rees-Mogg, believes a no-deal Brexit will boost the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look, this is not difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Leave tomorrow with no deal. Declare unilateral free trade. Watch the economy grow. Preferably abolish corporation tax and get to work abolishing regulations, too. &#8220;Trade deals&#8221; are unnecessary since people trade with people and all governments can do is get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Objections?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Hammond, the chancellor, has said it is \u201cterrifying\u201d that one of Boris Johnson\u2019s close allies, Jacob Rees-Mogg, believes a no-deal Brexit will boost the economy. Look, this is not difficult. Leave tomorrow with no deal. Declare unilateral free trade. Watch the economy grow. Preferably abolish corporation tax and get to work abolishing regulations, too. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}