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Fred Mackintosh - the local challenger
Winning for Edinburgh South
Nick Clegg was in Edinburgh in January 2008 campaigning for Fred Mackintosh
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Welcome to the website of Fred Mackintosh and the Liberal Democrat team in Edinburgh South. We hope you find the site useful. Please contact us with any comments or requests for more information.
Edinburgh South is represented in the Scottish Parliament by Mike Pringle MSP. The Liberal Democrat Westminster Parliamentary Spokesman for Edinburgh South is Fred Mackintosh. The constituency is the tenth most marginal constituency in Britain according to the Electoral Reform Society and a swing of just 0.5% away from Labour would see Fred elected as a Liberal Democrat MP.
The re-election of Mike Pringle as local MSP on 3rd May confirms that the Edinburgh South Westminster Constituency is a clear contest between local resident Fred Mackintosh and the sitting Labour MP.
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Thu 1st May 2008
At its meeting today Edinburgh City Council voted 43-15 to "condemn the Labour UK Government for its decision to close 2500 Post Offices" across the UK which will mean 15 closures in Edinburgh. Sadly the Labour party were the only party to vote against this and instead they voted to "note that the post office closures cannot be prevented."
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Wed 9th Apr 2008
Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesperson Fred Mackintosh has hit out at a decision by leading Scottish poultry supplier to end supplies of chicken to Edinburgh independent butchers.
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Mon 7th Apr 2008
Liberal Democrats in Edinburgh South have launched a stinging attack on the Labour Government for bringing in tax changes that have increased income tax bills for thousands of local people.
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Sat 5th Apr 2008
Edinburgh South Lib Dem Westminster Spokesperson Fred Mackintosh has hit out at decisions by the Scottish Government to increase the number of trains from Edinburgh to Glasgow for blocking line capacity that could have been used to run trains on the Edinburgh South Suburban Railway to Haymarket and Waverley.
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Thu 20th Mar 2008
Liberal Democrats in Edinburgh South have accused local Labour MP Nigel Griffiths of failing to support local services after he voted to support the Government's massive post office closure programme.
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Tue 18th Mar 2008
Last week Liberal Democrat Mike Pringle MSP announced his intention to re-introduce his bill to the Scottish Parliament proposing a 10p levy on all plastic bags. The money raised from the levy is set to be reinvested in local environmental projects.
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Thu 13th Mar 2008
Nicol Stephen, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats visited Edinburgh South constituency this week. As well as meeting with local party members and staff, Nicol also joined local campaigner Fred Mackintosh on the doorsteps to conduct a resident's survey. Despite the bad weather, there was a good response to the survey, the first of many due to be conducted by Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats.
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"Liberalism in Britain has lost a great champion, the Liberal Democrats, a great advocate and our public life, a great servant. "
Lord Paddy Ashdown
In memory of Lord Richard Holme, who died on 5 May
"If the Tories want to claim that they are going to cut corporation tax, they have to come clean about how they are going to pay for it. Cutting the main rate of corporation tax to 25% will cost more than £5bn a year. If David Cameron is to have a hope of sounding credible he must state clearly where the money will come from. Otherwise this will be seen as yet another unfunded tax cut. "
Vince Cable - Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 May
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