Cameron Rose has found his political home in Reform UK for this election.
Mr Rose was a Conservative councillor in this part of Edinburgh for 15 years.
He said that he has lived in the constituency for more than three decades and knows all the local issues well.
He was previously a policeman and is now attracted by the “common sense policies” of the party.
He said: “Our economy has been burdened by the highest taxation in a generation, over regulation, high energy prices and crippling restrictions on personal freedoms. Labour offers more of the same. And the Greens seem to have become anti-science denying the biological reality of male and female (and they are not the only ones to do so!)
“The ‘cancel culture’ of recent years has had a chilling effect; sadly it has often been government and official bodies which have played fast and loose with truth in silencing views other than those they want to impose. I have experienced that in our local council in the attempts to silence whistle-blowers. I want to value and guarantee freedom of expression and individual liberty.”
He said that net zero is ruinously expensive, and there is no evidence for it, and there are other ways to reduce energy costs and with it the cost of living burden on families.
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