{"id":72450,"date":"2023-10-19T06:33:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=72450"},"modified":"2023-10-19T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:33:06","slug":"scotland-is-a-colony-the-unionists-need-to-face-up-to-the-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/19\/scotland-is-a-colony-the-unionists-need-to-face-up-to-the-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland is a colony: the unionists need to face up to the fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was discussion on the SNP\u2019s new strategy for independence on Debate Night last night. The BBC clipped this contribution from me:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIndependence isn\u2019t going to happen yet. Because Labour and the Tories are united in their desire to retain Scotland as a colony\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Political economist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RichardJMurphy<\/a> says Westminster is denying Scotland a referendum, against democratic values <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bbcdn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bbcdn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VMihf6vgsN\">https:\/\/t.co\/VMihf6vgsN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LIvTKdGPPD\">pic.twitter.com\/LIvTKdGPPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Debate Night (@bbcdebatenight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcdebatenight\/status\/1714762087786832371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As was apparent, this went down well with some in the audience. Some told me so afterwards. I clearly kept some people happy.<\/p>\n<p>As is also clear from Twitter reaction, it did not go down well with everyone. The colonisers do not like being named. It\u2019s a characteristic of the breed.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy with the choice of language and the provocation implicit in it.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the SNP rises to the challenge. It will have to change a lot of its thinking to do so, from abandoning neoliberalism to embracing a Scottish currency straight after independence, if it is to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was discussion on the SNP\u2019s new strategy for independence on Debate Night last night. The BBC clipped this contribution from me: \u201cIndependence isn\u2019t going<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/19\/scotland-is-a-colony-the-unionists-need-to-face-up-to-the-fact\/\"><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-72450","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\/72450","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=72450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72452,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72450\/revisions\/72452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}