Archive for the ‘Alison McInnes MSP’ Category

Alison McInnes MSP With the start of the new school term on Monday, my weekly surgeries across the West End recommence with surgeries on Monday at : Mitchell Street Centre, (The Base) at 4.20pm Harris Academy, (Main Reception) at 4.50pm On Monday, I will be joined by Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, for [...]

I am not long back from the AV referendum count at DISC after three hours sleep last night and a 22.5 hour working day on polling day, so I’ll try to keep this necessarily short … The election result has been exceptionally disappointing for the Liberal Democrats and in Dundee it was no different.   I would [...]

My Dundee Liberal Democrat colleagues – parliamentary candidates Alison Burns (Dundee City West) and Allan Petrie (Dundee City East) have met up with Alison McInnes, Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, in the West End to show their support for the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign.   They are pictured below in Taylor’s Lane. Alison [...]

As featured on tonight’s STV News and on local radio, North East Scotland MSP Alison McInnes, together with myself and Dundee Liberal Democrat colleagues, today launched a petition outside Tayside Police’s Headquarters that invites the public to support the campaign to stop Scotland’s emergency services being centralised into Scotland-wide force. Alison then visited the Broughty Ferry [...]

Yesterday, along with colleagues from Dundee Liberal Democrats, I campaigned at the Angus Council Carnoustie and District by-election in the morning and met with LibDem colleagues from across North East Scotland in Aberdeen later in the day.    Here’s a couple of photographs from yesterday! Above :  In Aberdeen with colleagues Allan Petrie (left) and Alison [...]

Earlier this week, my LibDem colleague Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, met with Graham McKee, the project leader for the V&A at Dundee initiative. Alison said after the meeting, “I have followed this project with keen interest and it was useful to get an update from Graham McKee on the next steps. We [...]

With the start of the new school term this week, my weekly surgeries started again last night at Blackness Primary School. If you go to http://tinyurl.com/frasersurgery , you can see the weekly surgery list. In addition to my weekly surgeries, this afternoon, Alison McInnes MSP, John Barnett & I held a joint surgery for the [...]

We had an enjoyable day today at the Maryfield by-election. Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland was in Dundee today, campaigning for Chris Hall, our Liberal Democrat candidate in Maryfield. Alison and Chris toured local sheltered housing complexes and also spoke with residents in the Baxter Park and Maryfield areas about local issues. I [...]

Alison McInnes, LibDem MSP for North East Scotland, is visiting Dundee tomorrow. We are jointly visiting Radio Tay’s studios to discuss with Bauer Radio, who own Radio Tay, our concerns about the recent changes to Tay FM evening programming, which removes local output. Later, from 1pm to 1.45pm, we are holding a joint surgery at [...]

Issued by my colleague Alison McInnes MSP today : Alison McInnes, Lib Dem MSP for the North East is backing Tavish Scott’s call to the other political parties in Scotland to work with the Liberal Democrats to cut the income tax rate by two pence in the pound.   Mr Scott, the newly elected leader [...]

News Release from Alison McInnes Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland McInnes dismayed by radio jobs threat North East MSP Alison McInnes has contacted the owners of Radio Tay after plans emerged for standardising evening and overnight broadcasts across seven Scottish stations. Bauer group anticipates redundancies or reduced hours as a result of the [...]

Having recently done a joint surgery with Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee West, I am now doing another joint West End Ward surgery with an MSP – this time with North East Scotland LibDem member Alison McInnes MSP (pictured right). It takes place in the Activity Room of Blackness Library between 12.45pm and 1.30pm this [...]

Was pleased to see North East Scotland MSP (and Scottish Liberal Democrat Climate Change spokesperson), Alison McInnes, last week call for the Scottish Government to take real action against climate change, so that Scotland takes a leading role in tackling this global challenge. Alison said, “Just over a year ago the First Minister outlined his [...]

A useful time at lunchtime yesterday with a joint surgery with Alison McInnes MSP at Dundee University Students’ Association – good in particular to speak with two of the DUSA office bearers about issues affecting the student community and, in particular, how the City Council can assist. This morning participated in a West End Community [...]

It has been an exceptionally busy week … on Monday, had a very useful and constructive meeting with Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, about a variety of local and regional issues. Also met with representatives from NCR and, apart from an administration group meeting on budget matters, the City Council’s Development Quality Committee [...]