{"id":5844,"date":"2012-07-31T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2012-07-31T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:01:29","slug":"scotland-will-get-172m-to-buy-embassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/scotland-will-get-172m-to-buy-embassies\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland will get \u00a3172m to buy embassies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shifted\/477046316\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/185\/477046316_479c198764_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shifted\/477046316\/\">British Embassy<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shifted\/\">The Shifted Librarian<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just noticed that in 2010, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office\">Foreign and Commonwealth Office<\/a>&#8216;s global estate (i.e., embassies, consulates, etc.) was worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201011\/cmhansrd\/cm110513\/text\/110513w0002.htm#column_1385W\">\u00a32,042,480,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of real estate!<\/p>\n<p>Scotland makes up about 8.4% of the UK&#8217;s population, and this is normally the basis for splitting up countries.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Scotland will be entitled to global estate worth \u00a3171,568,320 after a Yes to independence.<\/p>\n<p>This amount is of course subject to negotiation, and Scotland will probably be given a mix of buildings and money, rather than just a lump sum.<\/p>\n<p>However, it does demonstrate that any fears that Scotland might not be able to afford embassies are completely unfounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Embassy Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian I just noticed that in 2010, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office&#8216;s global estate (i.e., embassies, consulates, etc.) was worth \u00a32,042,480,000. That&#8217;s a lot of real estate! Scotland makes up about 8.4% of the UK&#8217;s population, and this is normally the basis for splitting up countries. This means that Scotland will be entitled to global estate worth \u00a3171,568,320 after a Yes to independence. This amount is of course subject to negotiation, and Scotland will probably be given a mix of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","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=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}