Election 2021: The Conservative's outlook for Aberdeenshire
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I have spent all of my life in Aberdeenshire and I want to ensure our voice is heard in Edinburgh.
The UK’s furlough and support for small businesses schemes have been fantastic, but they will come to an end.
My absolute number one priority is jobs and the economy, unless the next Scottish Parliament concentrates on the economy unemployment will rise.
Aberdeenshire already faces the fragility of the North Sea oil and gas sector which needs very careful management.
I am a history teacher at Aboyne Academy but I did my teacher training at Inverurie and Turriff Academies.
The Scottish Conservative led Aberdeenshire Council with the LibDems and Independents built new campuses at Inverurie and Ellon and new primaries at Turriff and Uryside; now we have to get the curriculum right.
We will recruit 3,000 new teachers and pledge £120million to help children catch up on lost schooling during the pandemic.
My former colleague Nanette Milne MSP started the campaign for the new Inverurie Health Hub.
I will continue this focus on local health services with our policy to increase spending in Scotland by £2billion and increasing GPs share of the budget.
I will work to safeguard and expand Turriff Hospital.
With the UK Government hosting COP26 in November now is the time to get serious about railways.
We are committed to take a serious look at the return of the Buchan-Formartine Line.
Aberdeenshire Council is the third lowest funded council and has been since the SNP came to power in 2007.
This means that our schools, roads and local amenities for young people have had to do without a fraction of what is spent in other areas.
We are seen as the cash cow for the central belt.
The Scottish Conservatives will end this and implement a fair funding scheme ensuring local taxes raised in the north-east are used to pay for local services.
I was the founder and leader of Better Together Northeast Scotland during the Independence Referendum.
Working with Aberdeenshire Liberal-Democrats and Labour leaders we secured a clear 60 percent - 40 percent result to remain part of the United Kingdom.
Aberdeenshire’s choice has not been respected by the SNP and it is clear Scotland will not be allowed to move on as long as they are in power.
If they win again it will be two decades of SNP rule.
It is time to get the SNP out.
Scotland can do better.
