{"id":88447,"date":"2025-12-15T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88447"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:59:32","slug":"why-labour-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/15\/why-labour-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why, Labour? Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ad394659-4004-40be-a2a5-76271dd8371c?shareType=nongift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FT has this headline<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1728-550x164.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1728-550x164.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1728-768x229.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1728-600x179.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1728.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to read the article.<\/p>\n<p>You just need to ask the obvious question, which is \"Why?\"<\/p>\n<p>Why would we want to lead a Ponzi scheme?<\/p>\n<p>Why would we want to lead the charge to undermine the state that made money?<\/p>\n<p>And don't we understand that this stuff only exists to undermine democracy at the end of the day?<\/p>\n<p>Or rather, it exists for that reason and to assist criminality.<\/p>\n<p>So, why would we support those two things?<\/p>\n<p>Why, oh why, oh why?<\/p>\n<p>And as to answers, there are none: not from Labour.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Comments\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When commenting, please take note of this blog\u2019s comment policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/about\/comments\/\">which is available here<\/a>. Contravening this policy will result in comments being deleted before or after initial publication at the editor\u2019s sole discretion and without explanation being required or offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has this headline this morning: You don\u2019t need to read the article. You just need to ask the obvious question, which is &#8220;Why?&#8221;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/15\/why-labour-why\/\"><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":[136,14,204,35,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88447","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=88447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88453,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88447\/revisions\/88453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}