{"id":200,"date":"2006-11-02T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=200"},"modified":"2006-11-02T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:24:00","slug":"independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.widmann.org.uk\/uploaded_images\/saltire-783390.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.widmann.org.uk\/uploaded_images\/saltire-777211.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epolitix.com\/EN\/News\/200611\/dd881606-777e-4a69-a7b1-ab6df45bdcc1.htm\">survey made for The Scotsman<\/a> now shows support for Scottish independence.<\/p>\n<p>Although I left the SNP and joined the LibDems instead two years ago, I did this because I disagreed with the SNP on some specific policies (in particular, it really upset me how they campaigned against the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_Fisheries_Policy\">CFP<\/a>), and because I felt more and more convinced that I am a liberal first and foremost, not because I disagreed with the goal of Scottish independence within the EU.<\/p>\n<p>England is such a dominant part of the UK, and Scotland is so different in many ways, that independence makes really good sense. Also, coming from an independent country the size of Scotland, it&#8217;s clear that Scotland had developed a client mentality &ndash; I think independence would be hard, but it would do Scotland good in the longer term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey made for The Scotsman now shows support for Scottish independence. Although I left the SNP and joined the LibDems instead two years ago, I did this because I disagreed with the SNP on some specific policies (in particular, it really upset me how they campaigned against the CFP), and because I felt more and more convinced that I am a liberal first and foremost, not because I disagreed with the goal of Scottish independence within the EU. England is such a dominant part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}