{"id":1496,"date":"2014-08-16T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:07:53","slug":"no-commonsense-in-comments-on-scottish-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"No Commonsense in Comments on Scottish Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian PM Tony Abbott manages to say that people who support Scottish independence are friends of neither justice nor freedom. He contends\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0offering\u00a0the strange\u00a0notion that\u00a0it would be better &#8220;for the world&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0that Scotland should\u00a0stay in the United Kingdom to shore up the Anglosphere.\u00a0He went on to say that he did &#8220;indeed love England&#8221; and waxed lyrical about the two years he spent studying\u00a0in Oxford. These last comments miss the point entirely. Abbott seems to place no store on the fact that Scotland, through a referendum of its people,\u00a0is making a decision about its own future, which is more than can be said about Australia on his watch. The Scottish independence referendum deserves high praise even if Scots living outside its borders are disenfranchised, although all over 16s can vote. Even NZ is showing us up with a forthcoming referendum to get the Union Jack off its flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian PM Tony Abbott manages to say that people who support Scottish independence are friends of neither justice nor freedom. He contends\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0offering\u00a0the strange\u00a0notion that\u00a0it would be better &#8220;for the world&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0that Scotland should\u00a0stay in the United Kingdom to shore up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}