{"id":76768,"date":"2024-07-16T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76768"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:17:12","slug":"fascism-the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/16\/fascism-the-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascism: the choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this in Twitter this afternoon, summarising a conversation I had today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-76769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1470-550x155.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1470-550x155.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1470-768x216.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1470-600x169.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1470.jpeg 1343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">I <\/span>think this is the choice that we as a society now face.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Labour is refusing to tax wealth right now. In that case it is enabling fascism, \u00a0in my opinion. This is what worries me about it, above all else.<\/p>\n<p>Fascism is the enemy now. Events in the USA are making that clearer by the moment, and Labour are already indicating that they think that this is a matter about which they need have no opinion, as if the rise of fascism there is a matter of no concern to it, and is a matter about which we may not comment because of our \u2018special relationship\u2019 with the US, which requires us to befriend the fascists when they get to power.<\/p>\n<p>My sense that we are walking towards a precipice grows, almost by the minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this in Twitter this afternoon, summarising a conversation I had today: I think this is the choice that we as a society now<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/16\/fascism-the-choice\/\"><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":[203,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76768","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=76768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76770,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76768\/revisions\/76770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}