{"id":79230,"date":"2024-12-22T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=79230"},"modified":"2024-12-22T07:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:50:46","slug":"labour-too-indifferent-to-democracy-to-care-about-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/22\/labour-too-indifferent-to-democracy-to-care-about-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/dec\/21\/ministers-resist-calls-to-block-musk-donations-to-farages-reform-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Observer<\/a> reports this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid a growing clamour for an\u00a0overhaul of Britain\u2019s political donation laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, they're resisting the call.<\/p>\n<p>They're too spineless to act.<\/p>\n<p>Too witless to recognise the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Too unprincipled to recognise what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Too keen to suck up to wealth to ever say no to it.<\/p>\n<p>Too indifferent to democracy to care about its future.<\/p>\n<p>Too careless about the people of this country to bother.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they're resisting the call. They're so frightened of governing they don't even know it's addressed to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Observer reports this morning: Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/22\/labour-too-indifferent-to-democracy-to-care-about-its-future\/\"><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":[14,16,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79230","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=79230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79231,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79230\/revisions\/79231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}