{"id":2479,"date":"2014-12-12T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:15:19","slug":"osborne-xmas-jumper-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Osborne in Xmas jumper surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>What do you give the man that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caused more misery than Scrooge for Christmas? Well the <em>Daily Mirror<\/em> considered this point carefully \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c national wear a Christmas jumper day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c presented the Chancellor with a festive sweater depicting the fluctuating UK public debt across the last four centuries, in a graph format.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A case of giving a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098wally a woolly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, three wise public sector workers travelled from afar and presented the gift to George at No 11 Downing Street this morning (December 12).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aim is to make the Chancellor think and is part of its #Madeuthink intelligent tabloid credentials campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe wanted our readers to see the context of the UK debt relative to recent history, which has seen austerity measures put in place by the Coalition government,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Wessel Van Rensburg, Trinity Mirror\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s digital marketing manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUsing a Christmas jumper to convey this information is especially timely on Christmas Jumper Day. Many people will also be managing their budgets carefully during the festive period and New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe graph makes interesting reading, with notable peaks and drops throughout the decades, leading us to where we are now. We hope this got our readers thinking.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter Clint Riley, pictured with the jumper said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese public debt figures show the chancellor should be more generous to the hard working people of this country.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at #woollywally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you give the man that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caused more misery than Scrooge for Christmas? Well the Daily Mirror considered this point carefully \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c national wear a Christmas jumper day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c presented the Chancellor with a festive sweater depicting the fluctuating UK public debt across the last four centuries, in a graph format. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76],"wps_subtitle":"Daily Mirror says it with knitwear","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}