{"id":1908,"date":"2023-03-16T05:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:35:02","slug":"breaking-the-constitutional-logjam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/breaking-the-constitutional-logjam\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Constitutional Logjam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scots seem little better off after decades of devolution.<\/p>\n<p>In his 4-page paper, SLRG&#8217;s Ian Kirkwood responds to the call of the many who are perplexed to find Scotland and Scots still trapped in a socio-economic logjam.<\/p>\n<p>Ian outlines the devolved Holyrood policy that would cause outrage at Westminster: a tax migration that would reverse the centuries-old outflow of people and resources from the periphery to the centre; from poor to rich; from Scotland to London and the Southeast. And so provoke a constitutional crisis to break the #RentSeeking logjam at the root of missing Scottish prosperity, poverty by location and embedded inequality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Breaking-the-Logjam.SLRG_.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Breaking the Constitutional Logjam<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots seem little better off after decades of devolution. In his 4-page paper, SLRG&#8217;s Ian Kirkwood responds to the call of the many who are perplexed to find Scotland and Scots still trapped in a socio-economic logjam. Ian outlines the devolved Holyrood policy that would cause outrage at Westminster: a tax migration that would reverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}