{"id":259,"date":"2007-01-22T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=259"},"modified":"2007-01-22T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T21:45:00","slug":"scotland-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/scotland-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Resource\/Img\/923\/0005876.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Resource\/Img\/923\/0005876.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/politics\/news\/display.var.1137459.0.0.php\">article in The Herald<\/a> today about how Scotland is routinely being ignored by Westminster in EU matters: &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s interests are being routinely forgotten, ignored and dismissed by Whitehall officials when they seek to influence policy and law-making in Brussels, according to a leaked government report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The current arrangement clearly doesn&#8217;t work.  I think the best solution would be Scottish independence, but a fully federal UK (as proposed by the LibDems) might also do the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in The Herald today about how Scotland is routinely being ignored by Westminster in EU matters: &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s interests are being routinely forgotten, ignored and dismissed by Whitehall officials when they seek to influence policy and law-making in Brussels, according to a leaked government report.&#8221; The current arrangement clearly doesn&#8217;t work. I think the best solution would be Scottish independence, but a fully federal UK (as proposed by the LibDems) might also do the trick.<\/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-259","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\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}