{"id":11382,"date":"2014-03-20T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2014-03-20T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:18:31","slug":"the-tories-are-completely-out-of-touch-with-the-man-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/the-tories-are-completely-out-of-touch-with-the-man-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The tories are completely out of touch with the man on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British workers have suffered the longest fall in living standards since the 1870s, and the Tory offer is making pints of beer 1p cheaper and cutting bingo tax. Oh, and the Bingo Association has pointed out that reducing duty of bingo hall profits from 20% to 10% will have &#8220;no money-in-the-pocket effect for customers&#8221;, so let&#8217;s park that in the &#8220;patronising and irrelevant&#8221; box.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/the-tories-are-completely-out-of-touch-with-the-man-on-the-street\/beer-bingo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beer-bingo.png\" data-orig-size=\"581,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"beer-bingo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beer-bingo.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beer-bingo.png\" alt=\"beer-bingo\" width=\"581\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beer-bingo.png 581w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beer-bingo-400x293.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the polls, over half of the population believe that the Tories only represent the interests of the rich. The cabinet is dominated by white, privately educated men, the sort of government that would not look out of place in 19th century Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British workers have suffered the longest fall in living standards since the 1870s, and the Tory offer is making pints of beer 1p cheaper and cutting bingo tax. Oh, and the Bingo Association has pointed out that reducing duty of bingo hall profits from 20% to 10% will have &#8220;no money-in-the-pocket effect for customers&#8221;, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/the-tories-are-completely-out-of-touch-with-the-man-on-the-street\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The tories are completely out of touch with the man on the street&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263,87],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-god-save-the-queen","tag-news-from-the-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-2XA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11384,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions\/11384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}