{"id":74448,"date":"2024-03-02T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74448"},"modified":"2024-03-02T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T08:40:48","slug":"you-no-longer-need-to-be-paranoid-to-think-the-government-are-coming-for-you-when-they-most-probably-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/02\/you-no-longer-need-to-be-paranoid-to-think-the-government-are-coming-for-you-when-they-most-probably-are\/","title":{"rendered":"You no longer need to be paranoid to think the government are coming for you when they most probably are."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might well be the best commentary I have read on Sunak\u2019s announcement yesterday. To put this in context, Caroline Slocock was Thatcher\u2019s private secretary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1343-550x499.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1343-550x499.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1343-331x300.jpeg 331w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1343-768x697.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1343-441x400.jpeg 441w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1343.jpeg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1344-550x481.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1344-550x481.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1344-343x300.jpeg 343w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1344-768x671.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1344-458x400.jpeg 458w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1344.jpeg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1345-550x432.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1345-550x432.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1345-382x300.jpeg 382w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1345-768x604.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1345-509x400.jpeg 509w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_1345.jpeg 1370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\nThe reference at <a href=\"https:\/\/smk.org.uk\/what-we-do\/policy-and-research\/defending-our-democratic-space-a-call-to-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the end is to this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me contextualise this. This is all part of the \u2018woke\u2019 agenda and there is nothing the government would like to do more than officially describe the National Trust as an organisation not promoting British values.<\/p>\n<p>Be worried. You no longer need to be paranoid to think they are coming for you when if you have the slightest association with any environmentally concerned organisation they most probably are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might well be the best commentary I have read on Sunak\u2019s announcement yesterday. To put this in context, Caroline Slocock was Thatcher\u2019s private secretary.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/02\/you-no-longer-need-to-be-paranoid-to-think-the-government-are-coming-for-you-when-they-most-probably-are\/\"><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":[96,14,108,16,74,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-environment","category-ethics","category-green-new-deal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74448","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=74448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74452,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74448\/revisions\/74452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}