{"id":9502,"date":"2011-04-05T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2011-04-07T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:10:23","slug":"camerons-delivering-hypocrisy-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/05\/camerons-delivering-hypocrisy-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron&#8217;s delivering hypocrisy in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/apr\/05\/david-cameron-pakistan-raise-taxes-rich\">Guardian reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>David Cameron has told the Pakistan elite they have to start paying more tax, and cut out government waste and weakness, if the British public are to back his plans announced today to pour \u00a3650m in UK aid to Pakistani schools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh wow: make the elite pay more tax!<\/p>\n<p>Deliver the policy at home David, please.<\/p>\n<p>Then, and only then, start lecturing others.<\/p>\n<p>Hypocrisy is running out of control in Islamabad right now, and Cameron's imported it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports: David Cameron has told the Pakistan elite they have to start paying more tax, and cut out government waste and weakness, if<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/05\/camerons-delivering-hypocrisy-in-islamabad\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502","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=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}