As a resident of Stranraer and the Rhins I am determined to restore our local area to the great economic hub it once was bringing employment and services that the area is crying out for.

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I belong to the Scottish Heritage Party who from the outset of the pandemic rejected all notion of shutting down the economy and in effect enforcing through fear risky medical interventions that are now being proven to have caused injury and even death.

As your elected representative I will be a champion for the people of this area from the young mum looking to have her baby in a local hospital rather than giving birth in an ambulance on the way to Dumfries to the Pensioner struggling to heat the house on the State Pension alone. As a 71 year old State Pension only Pensioner, I know what it is like to try and balance the books and on council and in government I will ask passionately how a State Pensioner in Iceland receives equivalent to £2,997, and in Norway £2,447 whilst in Scotland only £782. monthly. By giving a living pension, pensioners will spend more with local businesses, for example hospitality, so giving pensioners a pittance costs society as a whole! I am determined to put this right!

I realise Iceland and Norway have invested more passionately with infrastructure, which Stranraer and the Rhins desperately need. Our road and rail services have sadly become outdated through neglect from a far off council and government offices of unelected officials, so I will fight for our area to become an vibrant area again using our oil and natural gas resources rejecting the nonsense of un-environmentally wind turbines, the nonsense of enforced lockdowns with risky medical interventions bringing back to our area common sense initiatives that go beyond constant feasibility studies to positive action.

I will look to work with fellow councillors and government officials to reach these objectives looking to bring healing rather than divisions in society. We need to stand together in an uncertain world, my family having experienced losing all we had with the Northern Ireland troubles and it is my heart for Stranraer and the Rhins to have a community that stands together in bringing about not only the economic wealth but also the society stability and care for each other a successful nation always has at its heart.

I look forward to serving you who have elected me for many years to come.