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On gauge, the question is whether we build a European standard railway on Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer—UIC—gauge or work to the British standard.
Many of the women were the sole earners in their households. They were not working for pin money.The women’s first task, of course, was to inform those families that they would not be home that night—no easy task before the advent of mobile phones.
Its approach might have been valid at a time when society was composed of nuclear families that had one main breadwinner and someone—generally the wife—who earned some pin money, but that no longer reflects society as I see it.
Jeremy Purvis, Mary Scanlon—whose intervention Rhoda Grant agreed with—Des McNulty and Helen Eadie are just a few of the members who have concerns about funding.
Therefore, it would be wrong to rule out electronic counting for future elections, as Des Browne, whose hobby is being Secretary of State for Scotland, has done.