{"id":8876,"date":"2015-07-26T13:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T11:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2015-07-26T17:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T15:26:03","slug":"alex-salmond-tells-it-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8876","title":{"rendered":"Alex Salmond: Tells It Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alex Salmond has come clean. The quest for Scottish independence is not over. There are three issues which may trigger another vote (remember it took two votes for devolution). One is if\u00a0England votes to leave the EU and Scotland votes to stay. The next is the forced austerity which hits the poorest which Scotland voted decisively against. The the failure to deliver on the lavish devo-max promises a panicked English political establishment made to swing the last vote to NO. The only way to interrupt this chain of events is for the Scottish people to boot out the SNP at the \u00a0Holyrood election next year. This does not seem likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Salmond has come clean. The quest for Scottish independence is not over. There are three issues which may trigger another vote (remember it took two votes for devolution). One is if\u00a0England votes to leave the EU and Scotland votes to stay. The next is the forced austerity which hits the poorest which Scotland voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}