{"id":81618,"date":"2025-04-13T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81618"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:52:04","slug":"has-a-more-stupid-man-so-unable-to-read-the-runes-ever-occupied-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/13\/has-a-more-stupid-man-so-unable-to-read-the-runes-ever-occupied-no-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Andrew Rawnsley notes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/13\/do-you-yearn-to-hear-starmer-condemn-trump-if-so-youre-going-to-be-disappointed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Observer this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1620-550x308.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1620-550x308.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1620-535x300.jpeg 535w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1620-768x430.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1620-600x336.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1620.jpeg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>You can get most of the article from the headline. Starmer is never going to upset Trump. He is always going to claim a special relationship. And Europe, forget it, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>So, four things follow.<\/p>\n<p>We get dragged down with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Labour consigns itself to history.<\/p>\n<p>We do not become an essential part of the new world order working to remove the influence of the USA, which I note Will Hutton supports, as I do.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no counter-narrative to Trump\u2019s friend, Farage.<\/p>\n<p>Has a more stupid man, so unable to read the runes, ever occupied No. 10? (Please note: Truss is a woman).<\/p>\n<p>The answer has, I guess, got to be yes. But, not in recent times, I think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Andrew Rawnsley notes in the Observer this morning: You can get most of the article from the headline. Starmer is never going to upset<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/13\/has-a-more-stupid-man-so-unable-to-read-the-runes-ever-occupied-no-10\/\"><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":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81618","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=81618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81622,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81618\/revisions\/81622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}