{"id":52721,"date":"2020-09-08T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52721"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:16:40","slug":"scotland-should-not-expect-a-uk-government-to-play-fair-if-it-votes-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/08\/scotland-should-not-expect-a-uk-government-to-play-fair-if-it-votes-for-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland should not expect a UK government to play fair if it votes for independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Peretz QC and I do not always agree with each other, most especially on Scottish issues, but as a confirmed Unionist he accurately summarises what Scottish reaction should be to today's lawlessness from the UK government:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26-550x859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26-550x859.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26-768x1200.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26-983x1536.png 983w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26-256x400.png 256w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.26.png 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a word of warning implicit in. this: Scotland should not expect a UK government to play fair if it votes for independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Peretz QC and I do not always agree with each other, most especially on Scottish issues, but as a confirmed Unionist he accurately summarises<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/08\/scotland-should-not-expect-a-uk-government-to-play-fair-if-it-votes-for-independence\/\"><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":[106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52721","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=52721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}