My name is Stefan Garbowski.

Full statement

I was born in Poland and moved to Edinburgh in 2005 to work as a joiner and to create a better life for my family. Later I moved to Midlothian and whilst living here with my new wife, I become a British citizen.

As time has gone by I have observed the decline of the British way of life and values. Everything seems to be broken. We have record numbers using food banks, the longest NHS waiting list, our Civil Service has apparently never returned to the office but are still working from home, and worst of all we have suffered restrictions of freedoms enforced on society…speech, choice ie, No jab = no job, Stay at Home, LEZ areas. The list goes on.

I have become increasingly concerned about the pressure of illegal immigrants on our housing, jobs, NHS and other services whilst British people are being put at the back of the queue. I fully support the Reform UK policy of freezing non-essential migration and of stopping the boats, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and zero illegal immigrants being resettled in the UK.

I am also extremely concerned about indoctrination of school children and the constant sexualisation of them. School should be a place of learning with a focus on knowledge, skills and values not ideology and therefore I would support the banning of transgender ideology and critical race theory in Primary and Secondary schools.

British values, including freedom of speech are being lost. I would like to see a return to personal liberty and free speech for all. I feel that Reform UK Scotland is the only party that will stand up for British values, British people and the British way of life – tolerance, equality before the law, free speech and most important of all common sense.