{"id":77109,"date":"2024-08-05T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77109"},"modified":"2024-08-05T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:50:32","slug":"what-are-these-riots-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/05\/what-are-these-riots-really-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What are these riots really about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that Labour would like to project the view that there is a bit of summer protesting that has got out of control going on in this country right now and that the age-old mantra of getting tough on crime will solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>That would not explain this little missive that turned up in the comments section of this blog overnight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kill yourself you old commie rat, traitors will get the rope too\u2026 you will pay for your crimes against the native European people. You filthy disgusting subhuman subversive communist freak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The email account used was numbered. It will be untraceable, I am sure. And it will not change my behaviour, in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p>But I think we should have no doubt that what we are looking at is not just a bit of summer rioting. An excuse has been found to release far-right racist violence, and it is ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem that Labour would like to project the view that there is a bit of summer protesting that has got out of control<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/05\/what-are-these-riots-really-about\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77109","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=77109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77110,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77109\/revisions\/77110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}