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I was born in Edinburgh and have enjoyed living and working in this amazing city all my life. Since graduating from Edinburgh Uni in Computer Science, I worked for various companies in insurance and technology. When I became a mum, I decided to leave the corporate life behind to focus on parenting and since then I have been a partner in a business and more recently, I’m very involved in caring for my elderly mum. I’ve been married for 37 years, and I live with my husband, two sons and rescue dog. My interests include playing music and singing, dog training and psychology, science and nature.
I’ve never been involved in politics before, but I have been moved to act now by joining EDINBURGH PEOPLE and standing. This means you are empowered to vote for people whose allegiance is to the people rather than voting for career politicians, whose primary allegiance is to their party.
I am really concerned by the pervasive influence which unelected corporate and global organisations have on key policies which profoundly affect all areas of our lives. We find ourselves with a system of governance involving all the traditional political parties, which is corrupt, inept and unfit for purpose.
There are many national issues which affect us all, on which Edinburgh people will have a say. Locally, my goal is to give a voice to real Edinburgh people. With no party whips or corporate influence, I will be able to focus on understanding and standing up for the values and wishes of Edinburgh People and to reverse the erosion of the city as a wonderful and viable place for local people to live.This is just a placeholder headline, we will replace it soon.
My career, spanning over 30 years, has been in Operations Management and Supply Chain, working with many businesses, large and small, to help them achieve success by providing workable solutions to complex problems.
Like many others, I am also disillusioned by the failed government and political system, influenced by the global corporations and diktats, that do not serve the interests of the people of Edinburgh. I am standing for office because I would like to bring your policies, your ideas and your concerns “to the table,” and bring my business knowledge and experience, facilitate a process where we work together to find the best way forward. To me EDINBURGH PEOPLE is the best solution.
Originally from Staffordshire, I’m married with four children, and have lived in Edinburgh for 5 years.This is just a placeholder headline, we will replace it soon.
As a proud son of the beautiful city of Edinburgh, I spent some time abroad in my youth, but I always came home. For the past 26 years I have been a black cab driver in and around Edinburgh. As a father of two I have become more and more concerned about the way things are going. Compared to 25 years ago everything is so different now. I worry about what we are going to leave behind for our kids and grandkids. Younger people think this is entirely normal as they haven’t known anything else, but I don’t agree.
I flung my hat in the ring because we are not going to make any positive change by voting for any of the current parties. No matter which way you vote its more of the same. I think people are ready for some big change, something which puts power back into the hands of people. Some politicians seem to be getting a bit of backlash and others look like they are leaving a sinking ship, whilst honest upright working people are left to deal with the fall out. I was blown away when I heard Keir Starmer admit to Emily Maitlis in a BBC interview that he would choose the unelected club of so called “elites” in Davos, over Westminster. This shows just how far the influence of unelected organisations reaches and the possibility that a potential future PM could be taking his marching orders from the World Economic Forum.
I like EDINBURGH PEOPLE’s “don’t elect politicians – elect PEOPLE” and so I got behind it. As Henry Ford said, “do what you always did, get what you always got” – so it is time for us all to do something very, very different as a matter of urgency.This is just a placeholder headline, we will replace it soon.
Born in the Caribbean I moved to the Netherlands when I was eight years old. As a student studying dietetics, I worked for a service bureau converting paper archives onto microfilm. In my twenties I decided to drop the idea of following a career path and instead packed my suitcase to travel the world. I've lived and spent time in several countries, including China, Japan, Australia, Portugal and Ireland. In my thirties I was asked by the microfilm service bureau I previously worked for to manage the biggest microfilming contract ever - to covert the WWI soldiers' records to microfilm at The National Archives in Kew, London.
After successfully completing the project, I focused my attention on digitisation and information management. From London I moved to Dublin and worked there as a library assistant for the Royal Irish Academy and later the Law Library of Ireland. Simultaneously I studied subjects related to converting analogue records to digital and gained a master’s in information management.
In 2014 I moved to Edinburgh to start a job as digitisation programme manager at the National Library of Scotland. Edinburgh was buzzing and back then felt like a much happier place.
In recent years my concern for food security has grown because of government policies. For this reason, I decided to join EDINBURGH PEOPLE and stand.This is just a placeholder headline, we will replace it soon.
As the owner of Pure Pizza in Morningside and as a proactive campaigner I am acutely aware of the extent to which politicians are not representing the interests of their constituents.
We desperately need policies implemented which will level the playing field for small businesses and most importantly for those businesses that have not been created because the small business landscape is so hostile.
Big corporations benefit from economies of scale and purchasing power. As a result, every sector is seeing more and more consolidation. If this is allowed to continue it will become even harder for small businesses to survive and even fewer people will give it a go.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My dream of inspiring the creation of over 100 new political parties local to a town, city or region will take away the absolute power away from the big parties. Power will then be decentralised to lots of small parties which are democratically run and not capable of being captured.
EDINBURGH PEOPLE has planted a stake in the ground by fielding five candidates in Edinburgh’s five constituencies. We are all members of EDINBURGH PEOPLE. We are standing as independent candidates on the ballot as our party is not yet registered with the electoral commission. So remember our names and vote for your EDINBURGH PEOPLE candidate in you constituency.