{"id":21109,"date":"2025-12-05T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/explaining-uk-debt-with-biscuits-labour-mps-get-the-hang-of-viral-content\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:37:24","slug":"explaining-uk-debt-with-biscuits-labour-mps-get-the-hang-of-viral-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/explaining-uk-debt-with-biscuits-labour-mps-get-the-hang-of-viral-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon McKee, whose explainer has racked up 3m views, leads way as party tries to harness power of social media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/dec\/05\/labour-child-poverty-keir-starmer-nigel-farage-reform\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A perennial head-scratcher for progressives is how to craft a simple, compelling message on the economy. One Labour MP found the answer in a few packets of M&amp;S biscuits.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon McKee, who represents Glasgow South, has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GordonMcKeeMP\/status\/1992900776574804227\">racked up more than 3.3m views on X<\/a> with an 101-second video in which he demonstrates the UK\u2019s debt to GDP ratio using stacks of custard creams and chocolate bourbons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/05\/labour-mp-gordon-mckee-video-explaining-uk-debt-biscuits-33m-views\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/928a08a34a02548931d325fddf21c610ab816e2d\/0_114_1170_936\/master\/1170.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2d3c05fd6d2bc9332d77af453a8a0aa1\" title=\"Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content\" \/>Gordon McKee, whose explainer has racked up 3m views, leads way as party tries to harness power of social media<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nA perennial head-scratcher for progressives is how to craft a simple, compelling message on the economy. One Labour MP found the answer in a few packets of M&amp;S biscuits.<br \/>\nGordon McKee, who represents Glasgow South, has racked up more than 3.3m views on X with an 101-second video in which he demonstrates the UK\u2019s debt to GDP ratio using stacks of custard creams and chocolate bourbons. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon McKee, whose explainer has racked up 3m views, leads way as party tries to harness power of social media UK politics live \u2013 latest updates A perennial head-scratcher for progressives is how to craft a simple, compelling message on the economy. One Labour MP found the answer in a few packets of M&amp;S biscuits. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/explaining-uk-debt-with-biscuits-labour-mps-get-the-hang-of-viral-content\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}