As reported in today’s Courier, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have chosen Dundee as the venue for their three day Spring Conference in 2013. I am delighted to learn that my party has decided to again have its party conference in Dundee and all the more pleased that the West Park Centre – right in the middle [...]
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Yesterday (with thanks to Dr Iliyan Stefanov for organising!) we held a thank you party – at the University of Dundee Chaplaincy Centre in the West End – for our superb team of helpers for the Dundee LibDem council election campaign. In challenging times, I was delighted to be re-elected by such a wide margin [...]
Yesterday, I and my local party colleagues had the pleasure of another visit from Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Willie Rennie MSP to support our Dundee City Council election campaign. Here’s some photos from a great day! Willie with me at Harris Academy, where we discussed the Harris Academy re-building project Willie with my Strathmartine [...]
Campaigning for the West End and across Dundee
Posted: April 16, 2012 in Liberal Democrats, Network Rail, Rail StationToday, I had the pleasure of campaigning with North East Scotland MSP Alison McInnes across the West End, starting with a visit to Dundee rail station, at which Alison and I welcomed potential improvements that would see station refurbishment to the tune of £14 million – see right. A report to the City Council’s Policy [...]
Dundee Liberal Democrats today launch their local election manifesto – “Dundee’s Bright Future” – for the Dundee City Council elections on 3rd May. The document has detailed policies for all areas of local authority responsibility. Leading the Dundee Liberal Democrat team of 10 candidates – 2 more than in 2007 – I have pointed [...]
I was delighted to welcome George Lyon, MEP for Scotland, to the West End today, to meet my campaign team – here’s a couple of photos taken on Magdalen Green, prior to us having a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon’s campaigning!
Following the launch of the Dundee LibDem local election campaign yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending the first public meting of Dundee Liberal Youth, taking place at the Dalhousie Building at the University of Dundee. There was an excellent turnout to hear Tim Farron and Willie Rennie speak – here’s a photo and [...]
Dundee Council Elections – a superb LibDem launch!
Posted: March 19, 2012 in Liberal Democrats, Radio Tay, Tim Farron MP, Willie RennieDundee Liberal Democrats had a superb start to our local election campaign today, with a visit from Willie Rennie, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat President. Here’s some of us campaigning with Tim and Willie this afternoon: Willie was on Radio Tay news this afternoon about the Dundee [...]
On Wave 102 news about the Dundee LibDem City Council campaign launch
Posted: March 19, 2012 in Liberal Democrats, Wave 102I was on the Wave 102 news this morning about the Dundee LibDem City Council campaign launch, taking place later today. Click ‘play’ to listen:
University of Dundee Volunteering Fair
Posted: February 23, 2012 in Liberal Democrats, University of DundeeYesterday, Dundee Liberal Democrats took part in the 2012 University of Dundee Volunteering Fair - it was a great event and here’s a couple of photos from the day: With some of the Dundee LibDem Team Official Volunteering Fair opening
University of Dundee Volunteering Fayre
Posted: February 12, 2012 in Liberal Democrats, University of DundeeI’ll be participating along with Dundee Liberal Democrats in supporting the University of Dundee Volunteering Fayre later this month : You can download the above poster here.
Yesterday, along with some of my Dundee LibDem colleagues, I attended the party’s Kickstart event at the Grampian Hotel in Perth, in preparation for the 2012 local elections. It was heartening to see the large turnout of party activists from the length and breadth of Scotland. Jim Hume MSP (right) gave the final address of [...]
North East Scotland Liberal Democrat Regional Conference
Posted: November 13, 2011 in Liberal Democrats, Willie RennieLater yesterday – after a drive up to Aberdeen’s rather impressive Cults Academy campus – I had the pleasure of speaking at the North East Scotland Liberal Democrat Regional Conference. It was a well-attended event and party leader Willie Rennie was on top form, speaking about defending Scotland’s colleges from SNP cuts, against police centralisation and [...]
Willie Rennie on the SNP’s college funding cuts …
Posted: November 10, 2011 in Dundee College, Liberal Democrats, University of Abertay, Willie RennieDear Fraser, Today at First Minister’s Questions I asked if the SNP government would use some of the £67 million of extra funding they have received from our government at Westminster to fill the £40 million college funding gap. The SNP took the decision to cut college funding, which could threaten nearly 9000 student places [...]
Cllr Carolyn Caddick My congratulations go to Cllr Carolyn Caddick, Scottish Liberal Democrat winner of the Highland Council Inverness South by-election on Thursday – a gain from Labour and against a strong campaign by the SNP. As our party leader Willie Rennie said yesterday, “It is great to see Liberal Democrats back to our [...]
Further to my recent item about the Total Politics 2011 Blog Awards, I was delighted to learn today that I have topped the poll in the “Top Councillor Blog” category and I can only repeat my thanks to all who voted for me this year. In addition to some excellent Liberal Democrat councillors’ blogs, there [...]
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who voted for www.dundeewestend.com in the recent Total Politics Blog Awards for 2011. In the Scottish category, I have made the Top Ten for the first time (18th last year; 28th in 2009) and in the LibDem category, I have also made the Top Ten (18th [...]
Early this morning and along with my Dundee LibDem colleague Craig Duncan, I was in Aberfeldy to help our party colleague Victor Clements, who is standing in today’s Highland Ward by-election on Perth & Kinross Council. As you can see, it was a beautiful morning!
ASLDC, the Scottish LibDems’ Association for councillors and campaigners, held a “Kickstart” event yesterday in Perth – a really useful event in preparation for next year’s council elections. Ace blogger Caron has already done a resume of the day that’s rather better than anything I could have written (so have a read of it!) [...]
Secretary of State for Scotland Mike Moore addressing the event Its been a very busy Sunday – starting off with the Scottish Liberal Democrats’ Members’ Forum in Edinburgh (or – for me – half of it!) Its been a difficult time of late for Scottish Liberal Democrats but what was so very encouraging about [...]
Along with some of my colleagues in Dundee Liberal Democrats, we spent part of Sunday in the sunshine of Aberdeen, helping Gregor McAbery, LibDem candidate in the Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee By-Election. Here’s a photo from yesterday, with Gregor on the right :
It came as a great shock this morning to get a phone call from Scottish Liberal Democrat HQ to let me know that Andrew Reeves, our Director of Campaigns, died last night following a heart attack, aged just 43. Andy was not just a wholly professional and helpful party organiser and agent, he was [...]
As one of the first Scottish Liberal Democrats to declare for Willie Rennie as our new party leader, I was delighted to learn earlier today that Willie has become Scottish Liberal Democrat leader. Here’s the party’s news release Rennie new leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats 17 May 2011 Willie Rennie has been appointed leader of the Scottish [...]
In addition to the launch of Barney’s Fund that I mentioned last night, yesterday : * The Courier covered the background to the motion I intend to bring to the City Council’s Policy and Resources Committee on 13th June. This surrounds the plight of the people of Palestine, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the issue of the [...]
Alison Burns, Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate for Dundee City West at last week’s election, and her husband James Taylor, who was part of the LibDem team for Mid Scotland and Fife, have put together a short but rather good video!
The Scottish Liberal Democrat Leadership
Posted: May 7, 2011 in Liberal Democrats, Tavish Scott MSP, Willie RennieI am saddened to learn that Tavish Scott has decided to step down as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Tavish has been an excellent leader of the party and the bad, very bad, result on Thursday is not of his making. I’ve texted him this afternoon to pass on my personal thanks to [...]
Yesterday’s election – our many thanks
Posted: May 6, 2011 in Alison Burns, Alison McInnes MSP, Allan Petrie, Liberal DemocratsI 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 [...]
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