{"id":84440,"date":"2025-07-28T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84440"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:28:02","slug":"consider-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/28\/consider-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom B. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/28\/starmer-cant-save-himself-but-he-might-just-help-save-some-palestinians\/#comment-1033888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has written in the comments<\/a> on this blog this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For anyone reading this and thinking this country has lost its soul, consider this.<\/p>\n<p>A few hundred, to the low thousands are \u201cprotesting\u201d migrant hotels in Norwich, Epping, other places.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday 100,000 people showed up for an LGBTQ march in London. That\u2019s where this countries true soul is, not the cynical calculation of our leaders or a misanthropic minority wanting to tear it all down because they aren\u2019t invited to the party anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer would likely be very surprised at the turn around in Labour\u2019s fortunes if he actually took action on Gaza. Sadly, it\u2019s not the British people he is listening to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And nor are the Mail and others who are listening to the few hundred, and who are ignoring the hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>You're right, Tom. One hundred per cent right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom B. has written in the comments on this blog this morning: For anyone reading this and thinking this country has lost its soul, consider<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/28\/consider-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":[35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84440","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=84440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84442,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84440\/revisions\/84442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}