Dennis Robertson

This article is about the Scottish politician Dennis Robertson. For the English economist see Dennis Holme Robertson .

Dennis Robertson

Dennis Robertson (born August 14, 1956 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Robertson has been blind since he was eleven. He attended the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh and received social training from Langside College . Between 1979 and 1988 he was a social worker in Greenock and then worked for the Guide Dogs for the Blind in Forfar . From 2005 he worked for the non-profit disabled aid organization North East Sensory Services . His sixth guide dog is called Mr. Q.

Political career

For the first time Robertson appeared in the Scottish General Election in 2007 for national elections. In his constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine , he received the second highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrat Mike Rumbles and thus missed the entry into the Scottish Parliament . However, he was able to increase the SNP's share of the vote by 12.1%. In the course of constituency reform in 2011, the constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine was dissolved and largely replaced by the newly created constituency Aberdeenshire West , for whose mandate Robertson applied in the Scottish general election in 2011 . His 19-year-old daughter died during the election campaign of anorexia , which was the reason for his later commitment to educating people about eating disorders. Robertson won the direct mandate from Aberdeenshire West by a clear margin over Rumbles and subsequently moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time. Robertson is Scotland's first blind MP.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Information from the SNP

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
4. ↑ BBC News: My anorexic daughter is now at peace
5. ↑ BBC News: MSP whose daughter died of eating disorder leads debate
6. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
7. ↑ Scottish Television: First blind MSP elected to Holyrood ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.