{"id":82038,"date":"2025-05-02T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82038"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:41:30","slug":"i-have-to-live-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/02\/i-have-to-live-with-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I have to live with this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to live in a county where more than half of those who voted on Thursday voted for a far-right or fascist candidate:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-550x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-550x598.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-368x400.png 368w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37.png 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don't enjoy that fact.<\/p>\n<p>I don't much like the others, but at least as yet, they don't qualify for these descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>I did not expect to ever live in a country like this, where openly racist people seek power by blatantly discriminating against migrants, the least well off, women, the elderly and the sick, children and civil servants, teachers, health care workers and others on whom we all depend, whilst denying the privileges of wealth that they actively promote, in the course of which they deny climate change.<\/p>\n<p>What the f**k happened?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to live in a county where more than half of those who voted on Thursday voted for a far-right or fascist candidate: I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/02\/i-have-to-live-with-this\/\"><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":[215,96,14,203,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82038","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=82038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82042,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82038\/revisions\/82042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}