I was born in Kilmaurs, brought up outside Cumnock and settled in rural Perthshire via Lancashire and Falkirk and now live in the Carse of Gowrie with my wife Karen and our English Springer Spaniel.

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A Rural Chartered Surveyor and Agricultural Valuer by trade, I first got involved in politics for Reform UK in the Scottish Elections in 2021, standing as a list candidate for Mid Scotland and Fife, having come through Covid and been appalled by the misrepresentation, tyrannical acts and mishandling of what was a cold virus and for which a generation of young people have been severely impacted and the remainder of the population are still suffering under the current economic malaise which was born out of the rampant and indiscriminate spending during the Covid period.

I have similarly watched the ineptitude of both the current UK and Scottish Government’s on energy supply, NHS, education, housing, gender issues, migration, cost of living, NetZero, climate change, etc and I am again standing for Reform UK because I have had enough of the poor representation we have received over the past decades, where politics and globalist agendas have been allowed to ride roughshod over the will of the people and the practicalities of the situation.

People often quote that the “nail that sticks up, is the first to be hammed down”, but the truth is if no one stands up, then everyone is hammered flat and nothing will change, I am standing up and would urge you to do so as well by standing for, supporting or voting for Reform UK.