{"id":167214,"date":"2025-11-07T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/167214\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:38:09","slug":"mcguirk-pay-attention-to-the-uks-disaster-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/167214\/","title":{"rendered":"MCGUIRK: Pay attention to the UK&#8217;s disaster budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Britannic Majesty\u2019s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will deliver the budget for the United Kingdom later this month. When she does, she will jack up taxes. It now seems very likely that she will increase income tax \u2013 something the Labour Government explicitly promised not to do in its manifesto before the last General Election, just 18 months ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unrelatedly, but ominously, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/11\/05\/states-underlying-exchequer-deficit-widens-to-42bn-without-apple-boost\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we had this in the Irish Times yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His Britannic Majesty\u2019s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will deliver the budget for the United Kingdom later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,179,13,14,6,17,1332,11,12,15,16,5,12390,5569,11388,7,8,1294,96080,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-167214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-labour","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-rachel-reeves","22":"tag-spending","23":"tag-taxes","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-uk-budget","28":"tag-world","29":"tag-world-news","30":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115506335250756815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}