General Election 2024 – Richard Shillcock – Communist Party of Britain – Edinburgh North and Leith

Richard Shillcock is in the minority and he is gracious enough to laugh a little when asked how that feels. He is standing for the Communist Party of Britain and said that this party has a unique position.

He said the party has a different view of the government deficit, the role of trade unions, fighting against privatisation in the health service and the policies they have on control of capital and the causes of inflation.

A retired psychology lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, he said that his father “genuinely was a toolmaker”.

He explained how the party works, saying : “Every day is an election day in a way because we’re working in a trade union movement, in the peace movement, in the movement against the genocide in Gaza. There are a lot of community campaigns, tenants, associations, things like that, that we’re involved in all the time. But we haven’t had a Westminster MP since 1965.”