{"id":64447,"date":"2022-08-24T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T06:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64447"},"modified":"2022-08-24T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T06:27:49","slug":"gers-is-still-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/24\/gers-is-still-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"GERS is still CRAp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this morning's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/politics\/20718012.2022-gers-report-will-nonsense-last-ever-published\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National newspaper<\/a> as Scotland awaits the latest annual publication of Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland, the statement that has always been designed to show the Scottish financial position in the worst possible light:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fa510ViXwAAQTlr-550x676.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fa510ViXwAAQTlr-550x676.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fa510ViXwAAQTlr-244x300.jpeg 244w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fa510ViXwAAQTlr-325x400.jpeg 325w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fa510ViXwAAQTlr.jpeg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will doing a live stream on GERS for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/20718919.gers-put-questions-figures-professor-richard-murphy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National at 11.30, here<\/a>. Please join us then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this morning&#8217;s National newspaper as Scotland awaits the latest annual publication of Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland, the statement that has always been designed<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/24\/gers-is-still-crap\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64447","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=64447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}