{"id":36803,"date":"2017-04-07T06:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=36803"},"modified":"2017-04-07T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:55:03","slug":"the-economy-isnt-scotlands-problem-its-everyone-but-londons-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/07\/the-economy-isnt-scotlands-problem-its-everyone-but-londons-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The economy isn&#8217;t Scotland&#8217;s problem \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it&#8217;s everyone but London&#8217;s problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin McAlpine, who directs an organisation\u00a0called Common Weal in Scotland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonspace.scot\/articles\/10726\/robin-mcalpine-economy-isnt-scotlands-problem-its-everyone-londons-problem\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a great blog for them yesterday<\/a> under the above title.<\/p>\n<p>What he quite effectively showed - using ONS and House of Commons data - was that Scotland is doing just fine as a UK region. The problem is that the whole of the UK suffers because London sucks the life, investment and income out of almost all its regions.<\/p>\n<p>I won't do more than signpost the article here: I recommend reading it. And I endorse not only the analysis but also the suggestion that if Scotland was not a region but a country in its own right (which it is not at present) then its situation might be very different indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin McAlpine, who directs an organisation\u00a0called Common Weal in Scotland, wrote a great blog for them yesterday under the above title. What he quite effectively<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/07\/the-economy-isnt-scotlands-problem-its-everyone-but-londons-problem\/\"><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-36803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803","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=36803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}