I’m the quintessential Briton - born in Oxfordshire; spent the first few years of my life in London; then grew up in central Scotland before moving to Glasgow for university.

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I then moved back to England for work three years ago and now live in Newton. My ancestors are from all over Britain - two of my great grandparents came from Hartford, Cheshire.

At university I studied mechanical engineering; I enjoyed the research-focused parts of the course the most, so I stayed on to do my doctorate too. I primarily studied metallurgy, and conducted research on the crystallographic phases of ferrous alloys for industrial engineering applications.

In my spare time I enjoy amateur photography (Pennington Flash - excellent) and play drums decently enough - for which I grew up playing heavy metal but also enjoy some jazz!

I’ve always been interested in politics, and have been through the complete spectrum of political leanings, being more liberal in my teenage years but more right-leaning as I grew up (as is common to do so).

I’m a firm believer in British sovereignty - I voted leave in 2016 and then supported the Brexit party in the European elections in 2019, before then voting for Boris for the first time in the 2019 General because I believed he would get Brexit over the line (ouch). Democracy is important to me - I believe that referenda are good things - let the people have a say!

I joined Reform in 2023 after feeling betrayed by the Tories - Brexit in name only, mass immigration, highest taxes ever, mass invasion of illegals coming across the channel, and an NHS that has ground to a halt. I chose to stand in the Leigh & Atherton constituency because it’s on my doorstep and has been tremendously let down by successive Tory and Labour governments, with a perpetual Labour-controlled council that takes its voters for granted (good in-roads being made by independent candidates!).

Green space is incredibly important to me - probably as a result of growing up in rural Scotland. I’m an old-school environmentalist - let’s look after our forests, lakes, rivers, open green land - instead of concreting over them to build endless housing estates. The Leigh & Atherton constituency (including Lowton, Golborne, and Tyldesley) is being massively over-developed, with new housing estates being built on every available inch of land - reducing the quality of life for all residents in the constituency.

School places are full, traffic at a standstill, a huge lack of social housing - and despite all of these people moving to the area - an incredibly run-down high street in Leigh. Something is clearly not working. The primary driver of this over-development is mass immigration - which drives down wages, drives up house prices, and dissolves our British culture. Does Leigh really need so many empty cash-only barber shops?

Traditional red-wall voters have been betrayed by the Labour party, and betrayed by the Tories, many of whom kindly lent their vote to for the first time in 2019 to get Brexit done (myself included). Now where do we go? A Labour party that can’t say what a woman is? A Tory party with the highest levels of taxation ever?

Leigh, Atherton, Lowton, Golborne, and Tyldesley need Reform. We are serious about changing politics for good

On July 4th, vote for Britain, vote for Reform, vote for George Woodward.

Do you want your country back?