{"id":91419,"date":"2026-04-05T16:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91419"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:52:23","slug":"will-starmer-succeed-in-delivering-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/05\/will-starmer-succeed-in-delivering-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Starmer succeed in delivering fascism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/05\/we-are-facing-most-significant-days-and-weeks-in-world-history-since-1945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last post<\/a> was not depressing enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/leftiestats.bsky.social\/post\/3miqcgq56mk2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consider these poll findings<\/a> from Lord Ashcroft:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-91420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.42.18-550x723.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.42.18-550x723.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.42.18-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.42.18-768x1010.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.42.18-304x400.png 304w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.42.18.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-91421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.43.02-550x786.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.43.02-550x786.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.43.02-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.43.02-768x1097.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.43.02-280x400.png 280w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-at-16.43.02.png 878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The forecast is very clear. We are facing a Tory \/ Reform fascist government. And this is despite the atrociousness in Iran, which these people support.<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer will be able ot retire knowing he has fulfilled his mission of destroying Labour and delivering fascism in this country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my last post was not depressing enough, consider these poll findings from Lord Ashcroft: The forecast is very clear. We are facing a Tory<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/05\/will-starmer-succeed-in-delivering-fascism\/\"><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":[96,35,122,16,203,230,118,106,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-economics","category-election","category-ethics","category-fascism","category-greens","category-labour","category-politics","category-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91419","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=91419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91422,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91419\/revisions\/91422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}