{"id":77553,"date":"2024-09-03T18:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77553"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:45:06","slug":"todays-tragedy-in-the-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/03\/todays-tragedy-in-the-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s tragedy in the Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted this on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1505-550x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1505-550x201.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1505-768x281.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1505-600x219.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1505.jpeg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could solve this problem.<\/p>\n<p>It is the egos of politicians that is preventing this happening.<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t we accept that people have a right to apply for asylum here, and create a safe and orderly system to let them do so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted this on Twitter: We could solve this problem. It is the egos of politicians that is preventing this happening. Why can\u2019t we<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/03\/todays-tragedy-in-the-channel\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77553","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=77553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77555,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77553\/revisions\/77555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}