Scotland becomes first country to make period products free

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    BarnsleyReds Well-Known Member

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    #1 BarnsleyReds, Nov 25, 2020
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    #2 Tarntyke, Nov 25, 2020
    How long is it for, Temporary or period, I’ll get me coyit:)
     
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    #3 Tonjytyke, Nov 25, 2020
    I hear the sanitary products are going to be yellow. It’ll be the nearest Scotland gets to sunny periods! (Al get mine anall)
     
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    #5 TonyTyke, Nov 25, 2020
    I don't understand why this isn't already a thing.

    They were talking about VAT when Cameron was in charge - surely to god all of Europe should have done something to remove VAT at least.
     
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    #7 JamDrop, Nov 25, 2020
    It blows my mind that they aren’t provided in public places. Hardly any toilets at all sell them and even when they do they are charging £2-£3 for two tampons at a time. Places where you are sort of ‘trapped’ i.e. football grounds, theatres, arenas where you have bought a ticket and don’t want to have to leave or places where you physically can’t such as aeroplanes, that have toilets should be made to provide them, even at a cost (although it should be free like toilet paper). I remember getting my period once in a small airport late at night when the shops were closed and there was nowhere I could buy them from and I had a wait and a plane journey ahead. I initially tried using a load of toilet paper which is uncomfortable and disintegrates and then I worried that it wouldn’t last and I would leak so I resorted to going around asking strangers for something. I have never been as embarrassed in my entire life. Mine have never been regular so I got caught out quite often when younger and had to leave loads of places to find a shop to buy a big pack. You then have to head back to the toilets and you have nowhere to store the big pack it if you don’t have a large handbag but you don’t want to throw them or carry them around wherever you are advertising that you are on (imagine having to nip to shop and buy a pack of toilet roll and then carry it around in a plastic bag basically telling all your mates that you’ve just had a **** - it shouldn’t embarrass you but it does as a teenager or when with someone you’re not close with). I’ve been known to just leave them in the toilets hoping it will help someone else.
     
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    #8 Redhelen, Nov 25, 2020
    Just in time before I start menopause!
     
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    #9 arabian_ian, Nov 25, 2020
    Tesco were handing them out this morning. All wrapped in tinsel.
    Apparently the tinsel is only for the Christmas period
     
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    #10 arabian_ian, Nov 25, 2020
    Oi! Tonjy I’ll have you know it’s glorious sunshine here today. And this sunny weather is expected to last all week.

    In fact I can’t remember the last time it was dull and miserable here so take that back.
     
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    #11 Scoff, Nov 25, 2020
    I seem to recall Thatcher arguing for VAT on these products when she was PM - her opinion was they were a luxury!
     
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    #12 Jimmy viz, Nov 25, 2020
    Feels like something from the bygone past expecting women to pay. A real welcome albeit overdue initiative
     
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    #13 Tonjytyke, Nov 25, 2020
    Taken back with pleasure Ian!
     
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    #14 KamikazeCo-Pilot, Nov 25, 2020
    No doubt some people on this board will think that women should pay for products they need and shouldn't be nannied by the state.
     
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    #15 Redhelen, Nov 25, 2020
    The awful thing was the amount of schooling some girls missed due to this.
     
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    #16 JamDrop, Nov 25, 2020
    I heard they were free - no strings attached.
     
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    #17 arabian_ian, Nov 25, 2020
    I would not know
     
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    #18 MrsHallsToffeerolls, Nov 25, 2020
    Can they make me a couple of Chippendale chairs, mahogany cabinet and a Robert Adam fire surround. Who do I get in touch with.
     
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    #19 arabian_ian, Nov 25, 2020
    Probably Nicola Sturgeon
     
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    #20 MrsHallsToffeerolls, Nov 25, 2020
    Ah, I got her number written on the back of my hand.
     
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