{"id":5442,"date":"2009-11-29T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/29\/whos-leaving-now\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T15:09:23","slug":"whos-leaving-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/29\/whos-leaving-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&rsquo;s leaving now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2009\/nov\/29\/rupert-everett-madonna-carole-cadwalladr\" target=\"_blank\">the Observer today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Ruper Everett] suddenly announces that if the Conservatives get in, he'll definitely leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I'm not going to stay here if David Cameron gets in.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He rants about the Conservatives for a few minutes, and then, I say, but why do you dislike them so much?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Because they're posh.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But you're posh, I tell him.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know, but I wouldn't put myself up for parliament. I don't believe them. And I don't want the country run from yachts.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel that having come from that same milieu, that you have an understanding of them?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Yes. And they've got no perspective on reality. If you're in a country that's 95% Hooray then maybe they have a perspective on reality, but actually we're in a country that's 90% not Hooray\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00b6 and I don't want the country to be run through a boat moored off the coast of Corfu, where a foreign newspaper billionaire is pulling all our strings.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually don&rsquo;t really believe Everett any more than others who say they&rsquo;ll leave.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting though to note that this side of the threatened exodus is not being noted. Could that be due to the bias in the press he notes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Observer today: [Ruper Everett] suddenly announces that if the Conservatives get in, he&#8217;ll definitely leave the country. &quot;I&#8217;m not going to stay here<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/29\/whos-leaving-now\/\"><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":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","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=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}