{"id":52748,"date":"2020-09-10T06:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52748"},"modified":"2020-09-10T06:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:46:51","slug":"its-not-credible-for-the-snp-to-demand-independence-without-a-sovereign-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/10\/its-not-credible-for-the-snp-to-demand-independence-without-a-sovereign-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not credible for the SNP to demand independence without a sovereign currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I\u2019ve said, many times, that it\u2019s\u00a0not credible for the SNP to demand independence without a sovereign currency, because the result would not even vaguely approximate to sovereignty, but now Yanis Varoufakis has said it too:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Of course Scotland could be viable in the EU, but they need monetary independence too&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheNine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheNine<\/a>, we&#39;ll be discussing the UK internal market bill with politician and former finance minister of Greece <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yanisvaroufakis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yanisvaroufakis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full interview at 9pm on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCScotland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCScotland<\/a> channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5yE9oLDSCD\">pic.twitter.com\/5yE9oLDSCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Nine (@BBCScotNine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCScotNine\/status\/1303768911532490758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I\u2019ve said, many times, that it\u2019s\u00a0not credible for the SNP to demand independence without a sovereign currency, because the result would not even<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/10\/its-not-credible-for-the-snp-to-demand-independence-without-a-sovereign-currency\/\"><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":[35,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52748","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=52748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}