{"id":52354,"date":"2020-08-23T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52354"},"modified":"2020-08-23T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T10:25:35","slug":"addressing-andrew-neil-on-scottish-currency-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/23\/addressing-andrew-neil-on-scottish-currency-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Andrew Neil on Scottish currency issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Neil was ranting (I think it's fair to say) on Twitter yesterday on Scottish independence and Scottish currency issues, so <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1297463757346611200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I wrote a thread in response<\/a>. He's been rude to all-comers on the issue so far and no doubt he will be to me. But he will have to address some issues now, or be shown to simply be making assertions that are without foundation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-540x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-540x1024.png 540w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-158x300.png 158w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-768x1456.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-810x1536.png 810w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-1080x2048.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54-211x400.png 211w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.54.54.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-550x970.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-550x970.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-170x300.png 170w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-768x1354.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-871x1536.png 871w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-1162x2048.png 1162w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16-227x400.png 227w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.16.png 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.38-550x395.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.38-550x395.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.38-418x300.png 418w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.38-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.38-557x400.png 557w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-23-at-10.55.38.png 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should add one final comment. He is, of course, another BBC commentator, alongside Kirsty Wark of late, to show their complete lack of objectivity on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Neil was ranting (I think it&#8217;s fair to say) on Twitter yesterday on Scottish independence and Scottish currency issues, so I wrote a thread<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/23\/addressing-andrew-neil-on-scottish-currency-issues\/\"><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":[35,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52354","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=52354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}