{"id":1520,"date":"2014-09-18T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:13:36","slug":"prediction-for-scotland-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Prediction for Scotland Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at the campaign overall, WfaAR\u00a0predicts for NO at around 55 percent to around 45 percent YES, the same result as the 1999 republic referendum result in Australia.The economic and defence aspects of this decision, the need to be bigger\u00a0rather than smaller in\u00a0the\u00a0desire for stability; the proximity of England\u00a0sharing a\u00a0frequently crossed\u00a0common land\u00a0border (even Hadrian&#8217;s Wall didn&#8217;t work); the success of integration ethnically, culturally, economically and, most importantly, linguistically\u00a0by the dominant English\u00a0over 307 years\u00a0and, finally,\u00a0the Don&#8217;t Knows voting\u00a0NO tip the balance.\u00a0Changes like this require a huge leap of faith in the future\u00a0not business plans spelled out down\u00a0to the last detail. Politicians who have trained current generation\u00a0voters to\u00a0respond with their hip pocket nerve do them and the future a huge disservice. Bad luck for\u00a0the Oz\u00a0flag but we&#8217;re still working on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the campaign overall, WfaAR\u00a0predicts for NO at around 55 percent to around 45 percent YES, the same result as the 1999 republic referendum result in Australia.The economic and defence aspects of this decision, the need to be bigger\u00a0rather&#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-1520","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\/1520","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=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}