{"id":86956,"date":"2016-03-21T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=86956"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:16:14","slug":"in-it-together-the-reputation-cameron-cant-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/in-it-together-the-reputation-cameron-cant-shake\/","title":{"rendered":"In it together? The reputation Cameron can&#8217;t shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iain Duncan Smith\u2019s explosive resignation on Friday has pushed the Conservative party towards a split and reopened some old and very painful wounds. The resignation accomplished the political double whammy of weakening the pro-EU leadership at a tumultuous time, whilst undermining the reputation that Cameron has made a priority to build in the last six years- that we\u2019re all in it together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea that we&#8217;re \u2018in it together\u2019 may have\u00a0been questioned consistently during\u00a0Cameron\u2019s time in power, but it\u2019s been an important tool to reassure voters that they can vote for austerity measures with a clear\u00a0conscience.\u00a0Only last week, there were triumphant declarations from the dispatch box that the Conservatives are \u2018\u2019the true party of labour\u2019\u2019. And even in the face of defeat over tax credits, the official party line remained consistent: the burden is shared equally.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Smith\u2019s resignation has pulled the rug from under the leadership\u2019s feet. The Department of Work and Pensions has in the last six years cut welfare time and again, but cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) have proven a truly controversial subject, with \u00a31.3 billion savings made from disability welfare in last week\u2019s budget. This directly coincides with tax breaks for higher earners, which has been met with opposition from MPs across the political spectrum. A high profile resignation over the cuts means this issue will not quickly subside, and fuels the idea that the leadership is unwilling to let its middle-class, older voters bear the burden of austere policies.<\/p>\n<p>Long thought of as the \u2018nasty party\u2019, the rhetoric pedaled by the Conservative leadership has sought to change the party\u2019s reputation to one which is economically sound but also socially aware. After Duncan Smith\u2019s shock resignation, it looks like neither will be left unscathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Duncan Smith\u2019s explosive resignation on Friday has pushed the Conservative party towards a split and reopened some old and very painful wounds. The resignation accomplished the political double whammy of weakening the pro-EU leadership at a tumultuous time, whilst undermining the reputation that Cameron has made a priority to build in the last six years- that we\u2019re all in it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":86958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7271,1449],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}