{"id":13378,"date":"2012-12-14T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=13378"},"modified":"2012-12-14T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:00:09","slug":"independence-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence for Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014, that could lead to secession from Great Britain.\u00a0 The prospects for voters approving independence are, according to polls, quite good.\u00a0 The British Prime Minister David Cameron is no Lincoln.\u00a0 Cameron has said the United Kingdom would abide by the vote (though only England and Wales would be left in the union that was once the \u201cUnited Kingdom\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0 If Scotland leaves, the new nation would take with them the priceless North Sea oil fields, though Scotland still wants to use the British pound for its currency, rather than join the Eurozone.<\/p>\n

See the op-ed piece by Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland:\u00a0 Why an independent Scotland deserves U.S. support \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I thought we were in the age of globalism, of national unions, of world government!<\/p>\n

William Wallace and Robert the Bruce would be glad.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014, that could lead to secession from Great Britain.\u00a0 The prospects for voters approving independence are, according to polls, quite good.\u00a0 The British Prime Minister David Cameron is no Lincoln.\u00a0 Cameron has said the United Kingdom would abide by the vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[954,1975],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland"],"yoast_head":"\nIndependence for Scotland?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014, that could lead to secession from Great Britain.\u00a0 The prospects for voters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Independence for Scotland?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014, that could lead to secession from Great Britain.\u00a0 The prospects for voters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cranach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cranachblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-12-14T11:00:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/\",\"name\":\"Independence for Scotland?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-14T11:00:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-14T11:00:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\"},\"description\":\"Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014, that could lead to secession from Great Britain.\u00a0 The prospects for voters\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/12\/independence-for-scotland\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Independence for Scotland?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\",\"name\":\"Cranach\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\",\"name\":\"Gene Veith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Veith\"},\"description\":\"Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a writer and retired literature professor, serving as Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College. 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