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I spent a very enjoyable day in Perth last Saturday. I went up for the AGM of Women for Independence. It’s always a really interesting and well organised day and this year we had the added attraction of the First Minister coming to speak, take questions, eat tablet, and post for photographs. I am really kicking myself for not taking my camera!  I only had my phone with me and I ended up with lots of out of focus snaps among the few decent ones. I like this one, though. I met up with a friend at the meeting and we got ourselves a photo with the FM ❤️. (That’s me with the scarf.)<\/p>\n

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One thing that’s clear is how much hard work the WFI National Committee have been putting into their proposed “Womanifesto”. To be honest, I don’t think it works very well as a neologism. And it comes out as either Womany- festo (emphasis on first syllable) or Woo-manifesto (emphasis on second syllable). I’m really hoping they ditch the word. But they are building an impressive policy agenda for women in Scotland, now and after independence. <\/p>\n

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Not quite sure what the ‘tin’ on the slide means in this context – maybe it’s what’s on the ‘W4Indy tin’. Or maybe it’s a typo! But the rest of what’s on the slide described what they’ve been doing: listening to women at meetings all round the country; talking about what women say matters to them, setting up a way of doing politics differently which is where Womanifesto comes in. <\/p>\n

After lunch we broke up into four large groups and each group had the opportunity to see a summary of what’s come out of this process. The group I was in looked at the economy and human rights & justice topics. There was a lot of info even in the summary, and not a lot of time, but they got lots of post-its with our responses and suggestions. <\/p>\n

So the tablet. Some kind soul had made enough tablet to supply over 100 women. There was a box on each table and a plate on the table where Nicola was taking questions from the audience. She’d definitely finished it off by the time we were taking photos!<\/p>\n

Next time I’m taking my camera but here are the photos, such as they are:<\/p>\n

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