{"id":90236,"date":"2026-02-19T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90236"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:16:09","slug":"what-does-starmer-think-hes-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/19\/what-does-starmer-think-hes-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Starmer think he&#8217;s doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this Tweet last night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-08.13.15-550x423.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-08.13.15-550x423.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-08.13.15-391x300.png 391w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-08.13.15-768x590.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-08.13.15-521x400.png 521w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-08.13.15.png 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought about expanding this theme here this morning. But, on reflection, there is little to add.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is deluded.<\/p>\n<p>He is a fascist.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to fight wars against Muslims, fuelled by hate.<\/p>\n<p>And Starmer appears willing to join with him.<\/p>\n<p>What does he think he is doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this Tweet last night. I thought about expanding this theme here this morning. But, on reflection, there is little to add. Trump is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/19\/what-does-starmer-think-hes-doing\/\"><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":[14,203,118,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-labour","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90236","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=90236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90238,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90236\/revisions\/90238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}