{"id":54023,"date":"2020-11-17T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54023"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:32:15","slug":"scottish-people-want-a-scottish-currency-after-independence-so-why-doesnt-the-snp-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/17\/scottish-people-want-a-scottish-currency-after-independence-so-why-doesnt-the-snp-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish people want a Scottish currency after independence, so why doesn&#8217;t the SNP leadership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Rideout has drawn my attention to a poll that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/715532695555527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish Currency Group<\/a> had included in a recent Scot Goes Pop opinion poll in Scotland. The question and answers were as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-54024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-17-at-10.10.24-550x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-17-at-10.10.24-550x283.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-17-at-10.10.24-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-17-at-10.10.24-1536x791.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-17-at-10.10.24-600x309.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-17-at-10.10.24.png 1806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>59% of respondents wanted a Scottish currency after independence. The proportion accords closely to support for independence itself. 89% of those who are pro-independence are also pro a Scottish currency.<\/p>\n<p>Two points follow. The first is that this is welcome, and new finding: confidence in a Scottish currency is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the refusal of the SNP leadership to consider this issue becomes ever more baffling. To commit to a currency union, which is what the SNP is effectively doing, is to commit to the Union still. I simply do not understand their logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Rideout has drawn my attention to a poll that the Scottish Currency Group had included in a recent Scot Goes Pop opinion poll in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/17\/scottish-people-want-a-scottish-currency-after-independence-so-why-doesnt-the-snp-leadership\/\"><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-54023","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\/54023","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=54023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}