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Police have visited Scotland’s chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood and issued her with a warning after she visited her second home.

Scotland’s chief constable Iain Livingstone said in a statement:

'Earlier today, local officers visited Dr Catherine Calderwood and spoke to her about her actions, reiterated crucial advice and issued a warning about her future conduct, all of which she accepted.

The legal instructions on not leaving your home without a reasonable excuse apply to everyone.'

gilsey wrote:They like throwing their weight around, rather like some police forces.

This is a much better idea.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I hope these rumours the government wants to effectively ban outdoor exercising aren't true, it would surely be impossible to enforce effectively apart from anything else.

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Just received a courteous phone call from @Keir_Starmer standing me down from Shadow Cabinet. I wished him and his new team well.
I will continue to do all I can to serve the party and ensure a Labour victory at the next General Election.

tinyclanger2 wrote:On outside space:
I have a walled terrace about 2.5 x 1.5 m. Full of plants which is nice, but means I can't actually sit in it.
This is considerably more than I've had throughout my adult life (ie: = 0).

National Audit Office (NAO)
Published March 25, 2020
Water supply and demand management

- The country’s total water supply is forecast to drop by 7% by 2045 because of climate change and the limits of sustainable abstraction.

- Almost all of the public water supply is obtained through abstraction from ground and surface water sources... .

- Even at current levels of average rainfall, a reduction of 480 million litres per day of water consumption is needed nationally within 25 years to restore abstraction to sustainable levels.

- Over the last five years, water companies have made little or no progress in reducing water consumption and cutting leakage.

- Efforts to reduce water consumption with the public and businesses have not been successful.

- The government committed to announcing a personal water consumption target by the end of 2018, but has not yet done so.

- [Government] has relied on water companies to get its message across about the importance of reducing water consumption, but there is no evidence this has had any impact on consumer behaviour and average consumption continues to rise.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Anneliese Dodds is the new Shadow Chancellor, good and correct choice. Lisa Nandy gets the Foreign brief, genuinely interesting.

Willow904 wrote:Without a similar role for Long-Bailey it could ruffle some feathers and we've already run out of comparable roles, I believe.

Nick Thomas-Symonds – shadow home secretary

He took over from Jo Steven as shadow solicitor general in 2016, and the following year took on the additional role of shadow security minister in Diane Abbott’s home affairs team, where he has been a critic of the Prevent anti-extremism programme.

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Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for tests. Persistent coronavirus symptoms 10 days after testing positive. Precautionary, say No 10. Sicker than they first thought or knew
9:11 PM · Apr 5, 2020·

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

Willow904 wrote:Without a similar role for Long-Bailey it could ruffle some feathers and we've already run out of comparable roles, I believe.

From an outsider's perspective Rebecca Long-Bailey should be kept well away from any role whatsoever.

gilsey wrote:They like throwing their weight around, rather like some police forces.

This is a much better idea.

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frog222 wrote:Not that I've got anything in particular against her, but she has neither got a long history of working 'pro bono' for good causes , nor has even a longtime membership of the LP ?

Correct if wrong !

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Well this is refreshing, Starmer seems to be filling the top shadow cabinet jobs with capable people.

My only concern would be Anneliese Dodds, she's evidently a smart woman but after seeing her on QT more than once she can be a bit wishy washy when faced with criticism. She reminds me more of a middle aged hippy counsellor than a shadow chancellor.

I mean I liked John McDonnell but unfortuntaley the captain of that ship didn't just drive it aground, he set fire to it then destroyed the rest with explosives.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:The realistic alternative to Dodds was Reeves (who has actually been given a post that sounds pretty grand but is of somewhat more nebulous actual significance)

Given that, many of us are pretty happy with the choice Starmer made.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Come on people.

Play some music.