{"id":65793,"date":"2022-11-25T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=65793"},"modified":"2022-11-25T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:30:26","slug":"sometime-the-whole-corrupt-edifice-of-the-two-party-political-hierarchy-in-westminster-is-going-to-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/25\/sometime-the-whole-corrupt-edifice-of-the-two-party-political-hierarchy-in-westminster-is-going-to-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometime the whole corrupt edifice of the two-party political hierarchy in Westminster is going to collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this comment on Twitter this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did we get to the point where there is no legal way for a refugee to apply to get into the UK and no legal way for a Scotland to leave it? The two are very clearly connected by the power structures that created both situations.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1596039920917041153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I deliberately added the last sentence. Without it I suspect I would have been accused of being tasteless, but I am not.<\/p>\n<p>My point is very simple. It is that the hierarchies of power in a country without a constitution are being used to deny what are legitimate rights. One is the legal right to apply for asylum in the UK. The other is the right of a country to leave a voluntary union of nations.<\/p>\n<p>Suella Braverman came unstuck in the first issue when questioned by one of her own backbenchers in parliament this week. She could not explain how the legal right of a refugee seeking asylum could be exercised.<\/p>\n<p>Tory and Labour politicians have collectively failed to explain how Scotland can exercise its legal right, which they claim exists, when they \u00a0collectively wish to veto its exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately neither position is sustainable. But, more tellingly, nor is the power structure that has let this position develop. Sometime the whole corrupt edifice of the two-party political hierarchy in Westminster is going to collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this comment on Twitter this morning: How did we get to the point where there is no legal way for a refugee to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/25\/sometime-the-whole-corrupt-edifice-of-the-two-party-political-hierarchy-in-westminster-is-going-to-collapse\/\"><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":[106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65793","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=65793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}