New constitution

[Derek Howie]

It is also fair to say that I did not see why the constitution proposed should not be acceptable with constitutionally agreed changes from the SGM.

The blanket No votes put paid to that ever happening even although in some cases (I think) the reason for their no vote was on taken on board and incorporated into the proposed constitution.

But they wouldn't know whether the reasons for their no vote had or had not been accepted so they were left with no alternative to vote no as they didn't know what they would be voting for.

That's certainly the reason why I voted no.

The wording of section 16, particularly the way that the impact on juniors had been ignored, was a show-stopper for me, and there's no way I could have agreed to it in its proposed wording.

I'm sure others felt similarly in other areas.