{"id":65340,"date":"2022-10-23T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=65340"},"modified":"2022-10-23T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:07:23","slug":"who-is-going-to-upturn-the-political-tables-and-say-people-planet-and-community-above-all-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/23\/who-is-going-to-upturn-the-political-tables-and-say-people-planet-and-community-above-all-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is going to upturn the political tables and say people, planet and community above all else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted this not long ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What are we going to do about thi Sunak, Hunt and Starmer (Johnson won&#39;t)? You all talk about&#39; fiscal responsibility&#39; and &#39;sound money&#39;. But when you stop pandering markets how are you going to meet the needs of the people of this country? Answers, please <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zADVA1dPEi\">https:\/\/t.co\/zADVA1dPEi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1584077124930969600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note, I deliberately bracketed both leading parties in this as both are dedicated to austerity to appease financial markets, which is wholly unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>We need answers to this most basic of questions, which is how are services to be maintained?<\/p>\n<p>The simple truth is that we can very obviously educate our children: the resources to do so exist within our society. However, in an economy where the whole focus is on meeting the demands of landowners and bankers that can't happen because they deny us and the government the resources to make all ends, personal and societal, meet.<\/p>\n<p>So who is going to upturn the tables and say people, planet and community above all else?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else will do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted this not long ago: What are we going to do about thi Sunak, Hunt and Starmer (Johnson won&#39;t)? You all talk about&#39; fiscal<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/10\/23\/who-is-going-to-upturn-the-political-tables-and-say-people-planet-and-community-above-all-else\/\"><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":[96,35,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65340","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=65340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}