{"id":2839,"date":"2024-09-21T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2024-09-21T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T12:12:34","slug":"political-kickbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/21\/political-kickbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Kickbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last person we know of to leave political power no richer than when he came into his office was, as far as I know, Thomas More. The man who gave back gifts when he realised they were not gifts but bribes. Famously written about by Robert Bolt in a <em>Man for All Seasons<\/em> Henry Viii not a man you stand against lightly, remained impressed when More resigned rather than submit to his religious authority as head of the Church if England.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot go back to the time when members of Parliament were landowners and received no salary, but the salary and expenses should be ALL anyone ever received for being a servant of the people.<\/p>\n<p>#starmer<\/p>\n<p>#parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last person we know of to leave political power no richer than when he came into his office was, as far as I know, Thomas More. The man who gave back gifts when he realised they were not gifts but bribes. Famously written about by Robert Bolt in a Man for All Seasons Henry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[952,525],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-keir-starmer","tag-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}