Lucy Gilchrist
Lucy Gilchrist is on the Conservatives' Prospective Parliamentary Candidates List.
Written by Lucy Gilchrist Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:41
A colleague and I have been participating in a 'reading in schools' programme for the past few years, in a bid to give something back to the local community. Prior to my fortnightly trip to the school yesterday I discovered I am suddenly not allowed to attend until I update my Criminal Records Bureau form. The rationale for this is seemingly because it is three years old. This strikes me as somewhat bizarre...
Written by Lucy Gilchrist Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:40
Yesterday I attended the Centre for Social Justice's policy briefing on their Dynamic Benefits report. Implicit in the report's title is a system which is significantly not based on a one size fits all approach.
In tune with this sentiment, Social Justice Scotland has much in common with the CSJ in terms of its objectives and principles, however, Scotland has its own unique societal issues which in turn require a particular approach. Indeed the CSJ's Breakthrough Glasgow report (2008) highlighted an...
Written by Lucy Gilchrist Friday, 21 August 2009 11:20
As U2 did a '360' tour of the UK this week, for once I felt able genuinely to relate to their relentless campaigning about poverty and development issues. Much criticism is directed at Bono for this - yet one wonders if we should instead applaud those in the limelight, not least for raising awareness?
A recent visit to Rwanda with the Conservative Party social action Project Umubano was illustrative of this. If...
Written by Lucy Gilchrist Thursday, 04 June 2009 11:05
91 years ago all men over the age of 21 were granted the right to vote in the UK. 81 years ago women were granted equal rights to men to vote in the UK. Today many UK citizens might forgo that right..
Watching the long queues forming in the US last November, I was in awe. In awe not just at witnessing history, not just because America was on the cusp of electing its...
Written by Lucy Gilchrist Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:18
Ten years on from devolution and with opinion poll ratings up by half, Annabel Goldie today asks the Scottish people to judge the Conservative and Unionist Party not on past perceptions but on current reality.
The financial crisis has illustrated the Labour Party's incompetence and, in turn, the SNP's inability to act on it. Therein lies an opportunity for the Conservatives to become the new party of choice north of the...
