{"id":13601,"date":"2010-05-08T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2010-05-08T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T16:46:14","slug":"election-crisis-markets-call-the-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13601","title":{"rendered":"Election crisis: markets call the shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Feldman, A World to Win, 7 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hung parliament that has resulted from Britain\u2019s inconclusive general election is certain to lead to a prolonged period of political instability slap bang in the middle of the gravest economic and financial crisis since the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Now the horse-trading begins \u2013 behind the voters\u2019 backs \u2013 to put together a government that is unlikely to see the year out. The Tories, New Labour and the Lib Dems don\u2019t have much time, as the markets made clear while the last votes were being counted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aworldtowin.net\/blog\/election-crisis-markets-call-shots.html\">Read more<\/a>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Richard Seymour: <a href=\"http:\/\/leninology.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/oh-what-fuck.html\">Oh, what the fuck?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nick Clegg talking about a coalition with the Tories? Are you fucking serious?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>John Lanchester: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/john-lanchester\/gravitas-frenzy\/\">Gravitas Frenzy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Tories are pretending to offer a serious deal, but the promise of a \u2018commission\u2019 on electoral reform shows that the two parties can\u2019t meet in the middle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Feldman, A World to Win, 7 May 2010 The hung parliament that has resulted from Britain\u2019s inconclusive general election is certain to lead to a prolonged period of political instability slap bang in the middle of the gravest economic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3xn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13610,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions\/13610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}