{"id":30881,"date":"2015-10-07T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=30881"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:49:14","slug":"i-hope-david-camerons-bought-a-big-bunch-of-flowers-for-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/07\/i-hope-david-camerons-bought-a-big-bunch-of-flowers-for-his-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope David Cameron&#8217;s bought a big bunch of flowers for his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was David Cameron's tasteless intervention with reference to me in his Conservative Party speech this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">There&rsquo;s an academic called Richard Murphy. He&rsquo;s the Labour Party&rsquo;s new economics guru, and the man behind their plan to print more money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">He gave an interview a few weeks ago. He was very frank. He admitted that Labour&rsquo;s plan would cause a &ldquo;sterling crisis&rdquo;, but to be fair&hellip;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">&hellip;he did add, and I quote, that it &ldquo;would pass very quickly&rdquo;.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">Well, that&rsquo;s alright then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">His book is actually called &ldquo;The Joy of Tax&rdquo;. I&rsquo;ve read it.I took it home to show Samantha. It&rsquo;s got 64 positions. And none of them work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">Wow. I hope she's forgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">More soon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was David Cameron&#8217;s tasteless intervention with reference to me in his Conservative Party speech this morning: There&rsquo;s an academic called Richard Murphy. He&rsquo;s the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/07\/i-hope-david-camerons-bought-a-big-bunch-of-flowers-for-his-wife\/\"><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-30881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30881","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=30881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}