{"id":807,"date":"2017-10-29T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=807"},"modified":"2018-02-10T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T11:23:48","slug":"scotland-and-scotsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/scotland-and-scotsmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland and Scotsmen, Henry George&#8217;s speech in Glasgow City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speech:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ScotlandScotsmen.pdf\">Scotland and Scotsmen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henry George&#8217;s speech in Glasgow City Hall started a process culminating in the 1909 People&#8217;s Budget. Lloyd George and Winston Churchill passed a measure through the House of Commons to collect a levy on the rental value of land. But their plans were frustrated by the House of Lords. The shameless throttling of the democratic mandate sparked the Constitutional Crisis and hastened the path to war. To paint a picture of the UK today \u2013 had the reform succeeded \u2013 would have been a gratifying survey of shared prosperity extending to all corners of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speech:\u00a0Scotland and Scotsmen Henry George&#8217;s speech in Glasgow City Hall started a process culminating in the 1909 People&#8217;s Budget. Lloyd George and Winston Churchill passed a measure through the House of Commons to collect a levy on the rental value of land. But their plans were frustrated by the House of Lords. The shameless throttling [&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-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}