{"id":6432,"date":"2015-09-22T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T07:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2015-09-22T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T07:09:39","slug":"lets-make-october-5th-nick-clegg-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/09\/22\/lets-make-october-5th-nick-clegg-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's make October 5th Nick Clegg Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Clegg's new plastic bag tax \/ charge comes into effect on October 5th across England. \u00a0From that date,\u00a0retailers with &gt;250 full-time (equivalent) employees will have to charge <em>at least\u00a0<\/em>5p for the single-use plastic bag. \u00a0The idea is to encourage people to re-use bags or to use \u2018bags for life\u2019. \u00a0It's part of the nudge-nudge behaviour change campaign, and the 5p (or more) goes to charity.<\/p>\n<p>It's a fair bet that few people know this is coming, and an even safer one that no one know whom to thank (or blame, according to your view point). \u00a0When people complain (or cheer) and discover that it's Clegg\u00a0to whom credit \/ blame is due, his public standing will either plummet further (or rise). \u00a0As\u00a0we should be open about the source of such a\u00a0progressive \/ regressive move, I hope the government will make October 5th <em>Nick Clegg Day<\/em> as an annual reminder.<\/p>\n<p>The full details of the charge \/ tax can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/carrier-bag-charges-retailers-responsibilities\">Defra<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Clegg's new plastic bag tax \/ charge comes into effect on October 5th across England. \u00a0From that date,\u00a0retailers with &gt;250 full-time (equivalent) employees will have to charge at least\u00a05p for the single-use plastic bag. \u00a0The idea is to encourage...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}