RICHARD BROOKS
ABERDEEN CITY COUNCILLOR - VOICE FOR THE NORTH EAST
Fighting for the North East
Delivering for over 20 years
A Stronger North East is a Stronger Britain!
Richard Brooks went to school in Arbroath, studied in Aberdeen University and has spent the last 25 years working in the North East, mainly in Aberdeen.
We have beauty and brilliance all around us. At the foot of some of the most breath-taking scenery in the UK lies the Oil and Gas capital of Europe, Aberdeen with university researchers and industry innovators leading us through the Energy Transition to Net Zero; Dotted around the scenery are distilleries making the finest whisky in the world; thriving farming and fishing industries. We have some of the best innovative minds and business leaders in the world, tourist attractions from Castles to Abbeys and a bustling wealth of industry serving the whole of the UK. ..But...
In Aberdeen we have a SNP-led Coalition leading the Aberdeen administration.
For some reason, the SNP nationally have never fully recognised the North East, its achievements or its potential. Maybe it’s because we are very much a part of the United Kingdom providing half the homes in Britain with energy; Maybe it’s because we benefit from unfettered access to British markets through produce such as strawberries, rasperies, beef, lamb, fish, and whisky; or maybe it is because of our beauty, wealth of wildlife and holiday retreats....who really knows!
Richard Brooks is turning up the volume for local people with local issues across the North East. He is fighting hard to hold the SNP to account both locally and nationally on some very poor deision, from bus gates, to LEZ; from closed swimming pools to closed libraries; grinding our city and our region into the ground.
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Richard Brooks adding volume to local voices across the North East
A large ill-conceived plan to erect 1500 pylons from the north to the south of Scotland is underway despite the impact to our countryside, our health and our environmental impact. WE will not remain silent and will expose the green-washing claims that this will mitigate climate change and aid our efforts to reach Net Zero. Richard will be supporting Deeside Against Pylons, Save our Mearns and Leylodge Against Industrialisation.
www.StrongerNE.uk
The war in the Ukraine has seen the UK hit by extreme fuel prices and cost-of-living challenges being felt by every community in the Northeast. Now more than ever we need to pull together, watch out for one another, make sure we have a community to resist the plight of social isolation, deprivation and vulnerability. The last thing we need is separation!
Under the current SNP government Scotland has the worst child poverty in Europe for almost all of the last decade; teachers under-paid and under-resourced; Scottish education ranked bottom; the Scottish NHS at breaking point and the most under-resourced, underfunded Policeforce in the UK. We have the worst drug death statistics in Europe, and have seen an astronomical rise in foodbank usage ; this is not a Westminster thing, this is an SNP thing! And the SNP government blindly spend 'our' millions on failed (and never ending) ferry projects, misleading the people on independence, wasting more of our money on Lorna Slater’s ill-thought out deposit return scheme and the ill-fated Gender recognition bill; whilst sending our once world-class education down the drain, not to mention set plans that will negatively affect our fishing industry, our clean power industry, and desimating our increasingly necessary oil and gas sector.
This country to its knees. It’s time to work together to put this Nation back on its feet, putting your priorities first. Whilst Richard blames the SNP for the chaos, he is committed to work with any and all political parties to get Scotland thriving again; and whilst he is the founder of what is believed to be the first exclusive foodbank in Scotland over 20 years, he continues to be committed to ridding Scotland of their need.
