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There are benefits to having a closed list in managing workload and in things not growing arms and legs or whatever. If who is able to “clype”, as I put it in my written evidence, is restricted, that will have an effect by hamstringing what can get to the land and communities commissioner’s desk.
I think that it is worth telling the commission that before Bill Moyes resigned we were already beginning a process of considering how we could improve how this three-legged stool of the Auditor General, my board and the commission work.
I will read to you a list of what I saw on that day: lapwing, oyster catcher, curlew, golden plover, snipe, heron, red-legged partridge, black grouse, red grouse, corvids, meadow pipit and whinchat.
Also, does he agree with the Daily Express that first-time buyers get the “biggest leg-up” in the Scottish market? Are those not things that he should be praising rather than criticising?
It is a minimum viable product at the moment, as it has just launched, but it will grow arms and legs as time goes on, and some of the funding in the budget will help us to do that.
The judgment also says that, although a convention might have developed over a considerable period of time, its very nature “is inconsistent with legal enforcement.” That is another leg to what a convention is all about: it is not capable of being taken to court and forced upon one of the parties; it is meant to be some kind of organic, proto-legal, polit...