{"id":28795,"date":"2015-04-24T06:31:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2015-04-24T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T05:31:16","slug":"the-end-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/24\/the-end-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/cf33d40c-e9d3-11e4-a687-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3YCY4Mcd5\" target=\"_blank\">FT has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Conservatives will ban Scottish MPs from having a deciding vote on any changes to the rates of income tax in their first Budget if they win next month\u2019s election, David Cameron will announce on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That then is the end of the Union.<\/p>\n<p>What the Scots failed to secure by referendum last year Cameron will now seek to deliver by the back door.<\/p>\n<p>Deny the Scots a vote on income tax in the UK and they are in the process denied the chance to engage in macroeconomic debate for the country of which they are still a part, and of which David Cameron says he intends that they should remain. Is it surprising they intend to vote as the opinion polls suggest likely?<\/p>\n<p>Three thoughts follow.<\/p>\n<p>First, he now believes that Scotland is a colony to be ruled from London.<\/p>\n<p>Or he wants the SNP to win in Scotland without any consideration given to the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Or he's a fool.<\/p>\n<p>I'm struggling to find any other alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>And the impact is massive whichever, or however many, are true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT has reported: The Conservatives will ban Scottish MPs from having a deciding vote on any changes to the rates of income tax<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/24\/the-end-of-the-union\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}