{"id":53534,"date":"2020-10-20T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=53534"},"modified":"2020-10-20T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:57:48","slug":"manchester-is-right-people-cannot-live-on-next-to-nothing-and-lockdown-when-the-governments-got-the-means-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/20\/manchester-is-right-people-cannot-live-on-next-to-nothing-and-lockdown-when-the-governments-got-the-means-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester is right: people cannot live on next to nothing and lockdown when the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got the means to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this yesterday. It\u2019s a more political video than most I have done. But that\u2019s because I am angry with the government. And I think Manchester is right to challenge it over coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>You simply cannot tell people to lockdown and force them into real financial hardship. That won\u2019t work. It cannot work.<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s more it\u2019s also completely unnecessary because the money to pay people in lockdown is readily available, which means that by not paying it the government is choosing to impose poverty on people. Of course Manchester is right to oppose that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why can&#039;t people live on two thirds of their wages\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2pliJPDWtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this yesterday. It\u2019s a more political video than most I have done. But that\u2019s because I am angry with the government. And I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/20\/manchester-is-right-people-cannot-live-on-next-to-nothing-and-lockdown-when-the-governments-got-the-means-to-pay\/\"><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":[181,35,16,106,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-economics","category-ethics","category-politics","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53534","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=53534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}