{"id":54266,"date":"2020-12-01T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54266"},"modified":"2020-12-01T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:44:50","slug":"mmt-makes-progress-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/01\/mmt-makes-progress-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"MMT makes progress in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was good news from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/18910384.snp-nec-results-revealed-michael-russell-becomes-party-president\/?ref=eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNP elections<\/a> at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kairin van Sweeden and Tim Rideout were elected to the SNP policy development committee. Both are committed to MMT and a Scottish currency.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps as important, Chris Hanlon is the Policy Development Convener and so runs this committee. He also happens to be a cofounder of MMT Scotland and is on the SNP NEC as a result of bein this committee's convenor.<\/p>\n<p>It is not my job to do party politics, and the SNP is not the only pro-independence party in Scotland. But it is good to see MMT exponents winning places where they can influence debate.<\/p>\n<p>I wish them good luck with the frustrations to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was good news from the SNP elections at the weekend. Both Kairin van Sweeden and Tim Rideout were elected to the SNP policy development<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/01\/mmt-makes-progress-in-scotland\/\"><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":[174,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54266","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=54266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}