RICHARD BROOKS

A Stronger North East is a Stronger Britain!

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, 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, a bustling wealth of industry serving the whole of the UK....and yet....

Unfortunately, the SNP have never fully recognised the Northeast. 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!

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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.

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. We have some of the highest 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; 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.

The SNP have brought this country to its knees whilst continually misleading the nation by suggesting it is Westminsers fault. It’s time to work together to put this Nation back on its feet.

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The Westminster government has given record numbers of people employment and seen 1.7 million fewer people living in poverty compared to the last time Labour were in government (2010). In England, the Conservative Government has abolished business rates for hundreds of thousands of eligible businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sector and are investing billions of pounds to support local businesses. They are freezing fuel duty, halving people’s energy bills, cutting the cost of childcare.

Whilst at the same time in Scotland, we pay more tax, business rates are through the roof, the SNP never did abolish council tax like they said they would, and they are wasting OUR money left, right and centre to quench their ignorant obsession for independence.

And your options are further narrowed by the Labour party.

The Labour party are so desperate for power they really don’t know what horse to back. It looks like they will go into coalition with the SNP, support independence and decimate our Energy sector. Keir Starmer wants to stop oil and gas production.... but not all oil and gas production, just the UKs. He will desert our workforce and import energy from abroad.... and they call themselves the working-class party. What a joke!

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Never forget, we would never have made it as a country if we did not have the UK governments furlough scheme, levelling up scheme, vaccine rollout and conservative government instituted Minimum Living Wage. Why would we ever want independence…it’s a waste of time, effort and money. Let's put the Scottish peoples priorities first and sort out the SNP mess one step at a time; lets stick together and pull ourselves out of the SNP mire and get on with being a great nation again. Next time you vote in Scotland, make sure it is a vote for Richard Brooks and the Conservative party. Only we seem capable of delivering!

"The majority of people I come across in the Northeast don’t just want a hand-out, they want a hand-up. The need is real, and the SNP really don’t care unless you back independence; whilst the Labour party will nail their flag to whatever they think will win them votes.... but we are the Northeast, we will not be taken for fools!

A stronger Northeast will always give us a stronger Britain, because together we can do far more than we could ever do apart." 

Whether you are a third sector organisation trying to meet the needs in your area or just a regular citizen struggling under the current system, Richard would like to hear from you, because we can always do more together than we could ever do apart.