{"id":91574,"date":"2026-04-11T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91574"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:04:13","slug":"what-are-the-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/11\/what-are-the-tories\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Tories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on X this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-91575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-at-15.50.48-550x398.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-at-15.50.48-550x398.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-at-15.50.48-415x300.png 415w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-at-15.50.48-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-at-15.50.48-553x400.png 553w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-11-at-15.50.48.png 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, here is the question: are the Tories callous, stupid or just bastards, as well as totally economically ignorant as to how government is financed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on X this afternoon: So, here is the question: are the Tories callous, stupid or just bastards, as well as totally economically<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/11\/what-are-the-tories\/\"><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":[96,14,204,16,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-ethics","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91574","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=91574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91576,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91574\/revisions\/91576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}