{"id":72635,"date":"2023-10-30T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=72635"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:02:18","slug":"question-of-the-day-which-country-will-leave-the-uk-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/30\/question-of-the-day-which-country-will-leave-the-uk-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the day: which country will leave the UK first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long felt that the UK has little future. Whatever once held the four very disparate countries* within it together will not, I think, endure for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>So, which country will be the first to leave the UK, whatever the Tories and Labour might say about granting them the right to do so?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-91\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Which country will leave the UK first?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-91-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Northern Ireland <small>(57%, 203 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 57%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Scotland <small>(29%, 101 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 29%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>I don't know <small>(6%, 23 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 6%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>None of them <small>(6%, 22 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 6%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Wales <small>(1%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"wp-polls-bar\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-polls-bar-fill\" style=\"width: 1%\"><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center\">Total Voters: <strong>354<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_91_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"d42faa32d3\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-91-loading\" class=\"wp-polls wp-polls-loading\"><span class=\"wp-polls-spinner\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p>* If you are not aware of how disparate they are, you need to travel about a bit more, I suggest. It's a sad fact that most English people have never been to any of Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland. Excepting Orkney and the Shetlands, I've been to most of all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long felt that the UK has little future. Whatever once held the four very disparate countries* within it together will not, I think,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/30\/question-of-the-day-which-country-will-leave-the-uk-first\/\"><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":[5,106,186,140,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-politics","category-question-of-the-day","category-scotland","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72635","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=72635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72637,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72635\/revisions\/72637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}