{"id":60182,"date":"2021-11-17T07:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T07:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=60182"},"modified":"2021-11-17T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T07:43:46","slug":"lifestyle-is-a-concept-that-only-the-rich-and-tory-mps-can-afford-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/17\/lifestyle-is-a-concept-that-only-the-rich-and-tory-mps-can-afford-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle is a concept that only the rich, and Tory MPs can afford, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of Tory MPs to shock with their stupidity is, it seems without limit.<\/p>\n<p>Here Andrew Rosindell MP tells Newsnight that great care must be taken with changing rules on MP second jobs as people's lifstyles and their need to make ends meet must be taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on preventing MPs having a second job: \u201cHow can we possibly survive on \u00a381,932 a year? What about our lifestyle??\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Newsnight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Newsnight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wegBsAG1P\">pic.twitter.com\/2wegBsAG1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David (@Zero_4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zero_4\/status\/1460742192704765957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Did he say that when cutting \u00a320 a week from Universal Credit? No, of course, he did not.<\/p>\n<p>Well-being and lifestyle is a concept that only the rich, and Tory MPs can afford, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of Tory MPs to shock with their stupidity is, it seems without limit. Here Andrew Rosindell MP tells Newsnight that great care must<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/11\/17\/lifestyle-is-a-concept-that-only-the-rich-and-tory-mps-can-afford-apparently\/\"><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":[96,14,16,147,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60182","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=60182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}