{"id":77655,"date":"2024-09-10T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77655"},"modified":"2024-09-10T17:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:28:20","slug":"labour-mps-voted-for-geronticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/10\/labour-mps-voted-for-geronticide\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MPs voted for geronticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this Tweet this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-17.21.43-550x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-17.21.43-550x192.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-17.21.43-768x267.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-17.21.43-600x209.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-10-at-17.21.43.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Geronticide <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/geronticide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the killing or euthanasia of the elderly<\/a>. Since it is reasonably anticipatable that the number of elderly people dying from hypothermia will increase this winter as a result of this decision by the government that Labour MPs alone in the House of Commons have supported, I think the accusation I have made is fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this Tweet this afternoon: Geronticide is the killing or euthanasia of the elderly. Since it is reasonably anticipatable that the number of elderly<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/10\/labour-mps-voted-for-geronticide\/\"><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":[16,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77655","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=77655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77658,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77655\/revisions\/77658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}