{"id":22659,"date":"2013-10-10T06:52:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22659"},"modified":"2013-10-10T06:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T05:52:36","slug":"royal-mail-privatisation-a-policy-for-the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/10\/royal-mail-privatisation-a-policy-for-the-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail privatisation &#8211; a policy for the 1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2013\/oct\/09\/royal-mail-shares-700000-applications-vince-cable\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian has a headline this morning<\/a> that says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-10-at-06.46.49.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22660\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-10-10 at 06.46.49\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-10-at-06.46.49.png\" width=\"378\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-10-at-06.46.49.png 473w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-10-at-06.46.49-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-10-at-06.46.49-200x45.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">700,000 people is, of course, just over 1% of the UK population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Which really does, rather neatly, summarise what privatisation is about, doesn't it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a headline this morning that says: 700,000 people is, of course, just over 1% of the UK population. Which really does, rather<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/10\/royal-mail-privatisation-a-policy-for-the-1\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}