{"id":55570,"date":"2021-02-17T06:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=55570"},"modified":"2021-02-17T06:49:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:49:47","slug":"can-scotland-afford-to-be-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/17\/can-scotland-afford-to-be-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Scotland afford to be independent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<p>I was talking to a group of activists in Scotland last week and was asked this question. My answer was an unambiguous 'yes'. In this video I explain why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can Scotland afford to be Independent?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jN2cyVm-VgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a group of activists in Scotland last week and was asked this question. My answer was an unambiguous &#8216;yes&#8217;. In this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/02\/17\/can-scotland-afford-to-be-independent\/\"><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":[35,106,140,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55570","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=55570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}