Fred Mackintosh - the local challenger

Winning for Edinburgh South

Fred Mackintosh, Councillor Jenny Dawe and Mike Pringle MSP at Warrender Park Road Post Office

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 re-election of Mike Pringle as local MSP on 3rd May 2007 confirms that the Edinburgh South Westminster Constituency is a clear contest between local resident Fred Mackintosh and the sitting Labour MP. The Liberal Democrats won more votes than any other party in the polling districts that make up the Edinburgh South Westminster Constituency.

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Click on the large picture to find out what you can do to persuade Royal Mail not to close Warrender Park Road Post Office.

Save Warrender Park Road Post Office New! Tue 19th Aug 2008 The popular post office at Warrender Park Road has been chosen to close. Unless local people fight back it will be one of the 2500 post offices to be closed across Britain as part of the latest batch of closures ordered by this Labour government. There is now a consultation period and we have just six weeks to save it. If this closure goes through there will be no other post office in Marchmont. The other one - at the top of Marchmont Road - was closed in 2004 in the last round of closures.

Fourteen City Post Office selected for closure New! Tue 19th Aug 2008 Royal Mail has proposed closing fourteen post offices in Edinburgh as part of the national Network Change Programme and the Lib Dems have come out fighting for the city's post office network.

One week to go until Post Office Closure list published Tue 12th Aug 2008 "It is now less than one week until the Royal Mail publishes their list of proposed post office closures for Edinburgh and Lothians" says local campaigner Fred Mackintosh "In the last few weeks hundreds more local people have signed up to our petition to Save Our Post Offices. It is clear that residents of south Edinburgh value their post offices."

George Lyon launches Liberal Democrat European Elections campaign website Sat 9th Aug 2008 George Lyon, top of the Scottish Liberal Democrat list for the 2009 European Parliament elections, has launched a new website. Details can be found at http://www.georgelyon.org.uk/

Lib Dem led Edinburgh to build new council houses in Gracemount Fri 1st Aug 2008 For the first time in a generation Edinburgh is considering building new council houses. The plans mark a major change in the city's housing strategy for tackling the shortage of affordable housing. Under these plans homes built in Gracemount, Pennywell and North Sighthill would be a major boost to the regeneration of each area. Affordable housing would be subsidised by the surplus generated from housing for sale.

'Save Our Post Offices' petition surges ahead Thu 26th Jun 2008 The 'Save Our Post Offices' petition, run by Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats has now gathered more than 1300 signatures!

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