Abdul_Latif

Sat next to Paul Weller at the Clinique counter in Selfridges in London about 15 years ago. A very nice friendly guy you wouldn’t have realised was a celebrity unless you knew.

Isn’t it likely to become irrelevant anyway cause of the amendments to the EA and birth sex as a defined / protected characteristic?

If more ballots have been sent than active members, there is clearly an issue with the process and it has to be null and voided. I can’t see that any other argument / justification is valid.

Is this some kind of tenuous justification for how votes cast should just about balance out, and it all fine then?

A fair counter, though I suspect much of her argument will be that the closed ranks / secretive nature of the party under Nicola Sturgeon was not working. The previous leadership has tried to sell some internal utopia where all are in agreement to the electorate, and if we didn’t already know, it’s now being proven beyond doubt that is not the case. Kate Forbes would simply have to state that while she believes in the party, she doesn’t believe it was being led properly.

I say this as someone really quite anti SNP, but there should be no problem at all with her saying things have been a fucking shambles and she’s here to improve them. The honesty should be commended rather than a stick to beat her with.

A welcome development from what has otherwise been a shambles.

I recall now the reason it wouldn’t be possible to donate your empties, was that the deposits would be in the form of a voucher to be used in the store they were returned to. Has that now changed to include a cash return that can be used as you please?

Is there any update yet on whether it is going to be possible to donate your deposits. Eg - schools doing collections for funds etc? I recall there was some reason it was not going to be allowed, but that may have changed.

Some major Aberdeen voting against SPL vote reform energy there.

It’s only PTFE that is excluded in Scotland. So in reality that is only milk cartons. Regular plastic coke / irn bru bottles etc (over I think 50ml) are all included.

The English one doesn’t intend to include glass.

Nothing in the SNP stronghold of Dundee is a bit of a surprise there tbh.

A coalition with the Scottish Greens?

Interestingly, all standing are either binning, or delaying DRS (in some form), as of this morning. Looks like the beginning of the end for the Bute House Agreement.