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A few bob extra per annum on income tax would more than cover much of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdiana.stone1%2Fposts%2F10155082143306129&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was ever a Christmas message then this is it. Homelessness can be fixed if there is a real political will to do it. A few bob extra per annum on income tax would more than cover much of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Homelessness can be fixed if there is a real political will to do it","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-qGA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144331,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/07\/02\/mark-field-probably-is-not-in-favour-of-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":102584,"position":0},"title":"Mark Field probably is not in favour of this?","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Dan Jarvis, the Labour MP for Barnsley Central, said it was worrying homelessness was becoming increasingly normalised in society. 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