RICHARD BROOKS

"I'd ask you to notice the difference between the promises of many who say they will do lots, and the few who have already done it for years."

WHO IS RICHARD BROOKS?

Richard was elected to Aberdeen City Council in May 2022, and is now the Conservative Group Leader; he is also the former Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Arbroath & Broughty Ferry.

Born in Devonport, Plymouth; Richard went on to live in Arbroath, attending primary and secondary level schools before joining the Civil Service as an engineering apprentice, and has gone on to spend over 25 years in the North East of Scotland (working mainly in Aberdeen's Oil and Gas sector), and being the founding member of a mulit-national award winning anti-poverty charity, recognised as the first Food bank in Scotland.

A former shipyard worker, Richard worked his way from the shopfloor through to senior management, gaining degrees in Law, Politics, Science and Divinity. Today he is a director, and engineering manager in a multi-national energy-sector company.

His ongoing interest in social action and social justice led him to study law, starting the anti-poverty charity TLC in June 2002, believed to be the first exclusive food bank in Scotland. Richard continues to be aware of the deprivation across Scotland often neighbouring great wealth, which fuels his national-commitment to seeing long-term solutions, and his north east commitment to see near-term change.

His efforts have been relentless in alleviating deprivation and social isolation throughout the last 20+ years, and through the double-national award-winning work of TLC, he has now seen over 100,000 people reached across the north east, a work that he and his wife Amy have been commended for at Holyrood on two seperate ocassions.

Elections and a close view of local & national goverment. 

In May 2022, against a challenging post-COVID backdrop, Richard ran and was duly elected as a Conservative and Unionist Councillor in Aberdeen South (Kincorth, Nigg and Cove).

Since then, Richard has seen firsthand that the SNP do not listen to the people. In cities like Aberdeen they have introduced bus gates,  LEZ, Visitor Levy (Tourist Tax) driving local economies into the ground; and here, rendering Aberdeen city centre a barren shadow of its former self. They have closed swimming pools, libraries and attempted to defund major 3rd sector organisations. And now nationally, the SNP are presiding over the highest child poverty in Europe, the highest drug related deaths in Europe, the highest number of food banks per capita in the UK, the lowest resourced police force in the UK, the worst educational attainment in the UK, a failing Scottish NHS, a failed Gender Recognition Bill, a failed Deposit Return Scheme, unworkable Hate Crime legislation ... you could say "everything they touch goes wrong" They are leaving a legacy of millions of pounds wasted (and thousands of pounds missing).

Today Richard is turning your volume up across the North East, holding the SNPs feet to the fire until they are willing to hear the people's voices and take approriate action; No amount of spin can save the SNP now - they are a chaotic party creating disaster and dysfunction both locally in the North East and across our once great country.

WHY POLITICS? Not just another Politician : Through every challenge and success, Richard has worked with people of all generations and vocations to see positive change happen. Much of this has rightly been under the radar and without a political agenda. However, there are hundreds of thousands of people out there that need to be heard now. Richard is using politics as the megaphone to get your voice heard.

At election time, its not simply about their political colours, "I'd ask you to notice the difference between the promises of many who say they will do lots, and the few who have already done it for years."

For the sake of your town, city and region, select the one who has already delivered and has a proven record of doing it time and time again!

"If you want to have something youve never had before, you have to do something youve never done before"

- Bill Wilson Metro World Child

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