{"id":55694,"date":"2021-02-25T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=55694"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:19:48","slug":"there-are-none-so-good-as-labour-mps-when-it-comes-to-making-their-chance-of-forming-a-government-nigh-on-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/25\/there-are-none-so-good-as-labour-mps-when-it-comes-to-making-their-chance-of-forming-a-government-nigh-on-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"There are none so good as Labour MPs when it comes to making their chance of forming a government nigh on impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/feb\/24\/keir-starmer-corporation-tax-rise-labour-budget?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian has quoted<\/a> Richard Burgon MP, the former shadow justice secretary, who is now secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question facing all politicians now is: who is going to pay for this crisis? And if we don\u2019t have an answer for that, then we are in a position where Labour doesn\u2019t have an answer to one of the biggest questions facing us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Richard: it is not the biggest problem facing us. The biggest problem facing us is your incomprehension of the fact that this bill has been paid, in full, already. You are the constraint on Labour winning, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>I have already tackled this once today in this video, and I will be doing so again tomorrow morning when I release the text of what I will be saying to Keele World Affairs tonight:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why we don&#039;t need to pay for Covid because we already have\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d3GEno9qFtA?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 noted that the Guardian has quoted Richard Burgon MP, the former shadow justice secretary, who is now secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/25\/there-are-none-so-good-as-labour-mps-when-it-comes-to-making-their-chance-of-forming-a-government-nigh-on-impossible\/\"><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":[35,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55694","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=55694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}