{"id":66434,"date":"2023-01-19T07:48:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66434"},"modified":"2023-01-19T07:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:48:44","slug":"port-greenwash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/19\/port-greenwash\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Greenwash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/commonweal.scot\/podcast\/the-common-weal-policy-podcast-episode-153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this podcast<\/a> with Craig Dalzell of the CoomonWeal think tank in Scotland yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-19-at-07.44.10-550x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-19-at-07.44.10-550x175.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-19-at-07.44.10-768x245.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-19-at-07.44.10-1536x489.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-19-at-07.44.10-600x191.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-19-at-07.44.10.png 1570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As they said of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week Craig talks to Prof Richard Murphy about the agreement between the Scottish and UK Government\u2019s to create two \u201cGreen Freeports\u201d in Cromarty and Forth. They discuss the origin of Freeports, their promises of creating \u201cjobs\u201d in the freeport area and how those promises often end up panning out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/commonweal.scot\/podcast\/the-common-weal-policy-podcast-episode-153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hear the whole episode, with some extra bits on the tax gap and on the madness of the Bank of England, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this podcast with Craig Dalzell of the CoomonWeal think tank in Scotland yesterday: As they said of it: This week Craig talks to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/19\/port-greenwash\/\"><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":[35,106,140,32,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66434","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=66434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}