Michael Veitch East Lothian Spokesperson for Transport and Roads

Councillor Michael Veitch was tipped last week for the Depute Leader post and Cabinet Spokesperson for Transport and Roads.

We are very much looking forward to meeting up with him.

What do we know about Michael? Well a quick Google search revealed the following snippets.  Michael is a graduate from the University of St Andrews (2001) and after a spell at Cadburys and a sales executive in London, he worked at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, where he was in charge of the Scottish Conservative research unit. He is certainly ambitious for political office as he  previously stood for the Scottish Conservatives in Linlithgow & East Falkirk in the 2005 General Election and in 2007 he stood in his home ward for the elections to East Lothian Council. In 2010 he clocked up respectable 9661 votes and a second position behind Fiona O’Donnell.

So what are his political views? Here’s what Michael stated on the East Lothian Conservatives website.

Michael’s priorities for Dunbar & East Linton:

*A presumption against any more wind farms in the area.

*Better public transport including: the re-opening of East Linton station, an improved rail service from Dunbar, the provision of vastly improved parking at Dunbar station and better bus services throughout the east of the county.

*Supporting the retention of local health facilities at Belhaven.

*Working to secure thriving town centres in Dunbar and East Lothian by backing local businesses.

*Opposition to the further industrialisation of the Dunbar-Torness corridor.

*Opposition to any attempts by the SNP to store nuclear waste close to Torness.

*Support for the upgrading of the A1 to dual carriageway south of Innerwick and safer junctions at Thorntonloch.

We are keen to discuss!

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  1. All sounds very promising… but now that politicians are in office it will, I suspect, subtly (more likely blatantly though) alter the tenor of the election rhetoric.

    Still, perhaps a fresh pair of eyes and a new attitude can extract rural east lothian from the islands of isolation they’ve inexorably become over the last 20 years of public transport deregulation?

    I hope that Michael is quick to seek a meeting with all interested parties… most especially actual rural bus users and community representatives.

    Cheers

    Ralph
    http://pencaitland.org

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