{"id":367465,"date":"2025-12-25T05:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/367465\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:55:06","slug":"miner-says-he-needs-to-see-more-common-sense-from-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/367465\/","title":{"rendered":"Miner says he needs to see more common sense from Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former South Yorkshire miner David Turton has welcomed the recent rise in pensions for NUM scheme members, which will see some former miners receive around \u00a3100 extra per week.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Turton said more needs to be done to ensure future surpluses automatically benefit pensioners and criticised politicians for being out of touch with everyday people\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;There is no common sense left in the government. There&#8217;s no common sense. They&#8217;re all too clever and they&#8217;ve never lived a proper life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He argued that many decisions made by the government, from taxation to policy changes, lack common sense and fail to reflect the realities faced by working-class communities.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH HIS INTERVIEW WITH GB NEWS&#8217; ANNA RILEY ABOVE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former South Yorkshire miner David Turton has welcomed the recent rise in pensions for NUM scheme members, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,106472,133,44,131,132,714,51247],"class_list":["post-367465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clips","tag-finance","tag-news","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-politics","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}