Manar Tayan
- Name:
- Manar Tayan
- Party:
- Independent (Peace Now)
- Constituency:
- Eastwood
- Election result May 1999:
- 349 votes (0.77%), fifth of five candidates
- Election literature available in Aspect:
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- Election policy statement:
- About our Democracy and Security:
Scotland needs a distinct outlook and a defining character. A written CHARTER would go a long way to define our citizenship within the UK and Europe embodying the UN Charter of Human Rights.
FACT: Britain is not just an Island, and Scotland is not a remote region of Europe. We live side by side with our southern neighbours in peace and prosperity.
I'd say: "If it is working don't break it, and if it is not broken don't mend it".
STANDPOINT: No Borders please. No divisions and don't play on our emotions and dig up the past.
The world is shrinking and democratic nations are increasingly joining hands in assistance. We are not occupied., we are a free nation. DON'T forget this.
WE OWE IT TO THE NEXT GENERATION TO LEAVE THEM A PEACEFUL, PROSPEROUS AND UNDIVIDED NATION. COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE WOULD NOT JUST PARTITION BRITAIN IT WOULD SPLIT THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE TOO.
On Policies:
PUT HEALTH FIRST! Despite all statistics and population trends our Health Service is not working properly. We are a rich and oil-producing nation and yet we have the worst diseases in Europe. We spend less on health per capita than other European nations. We should give the Health Service a priority, whatever it takes! Money would be food!
Southsiders deserve better Health provisions and an expanding service. I had the privilege to be a contributor to health provision and have had first hand experience as a user.
I support your views on the Victoria Infirmary predicaments, and argue that we may still need TWO A&E Departments not just one.
I am opposed to the deregulation of our precious NHS, commercialising it and trivialising the needs for proper rapprochement.
No 'drop-in' centres, or 'over the counter' teenage social and lifestyle planning.
STANDPOINT: I have opposed the continuation of supply of suspicious genetically modified foods (GM) and with our School Board colleagues demanded its immediate withdrawal from the school menus, pending conclusive consensus on it's long term safety.
What about Education:
I support your demands for the government to fulfil its promises to you:
I pledge to campaign to abolish divisive tuition fees NOW!
Ensuring a safe environment in the classroom, better detection of drugs, truancy and bullying. There should be Zero Tolerance to crime at this stage which could reflect in our society in later life.
I pledge to work to reduce Racism and all other forms of discrimination with adequate legislation to safeguard our streets.
Maintain parental choice in schools, be it state run, private or denominational. In the latter case, where some of such institutions are centres of educational excellence, harmony and a shining example.
On Taxation - local & national:
Remember that in real terms the Labour government had put up taxes by different means, by following Tory fiscal policy it restricted its scope on spending.
FACT: The disproportionate increase in fuel charges (Taxation) is an unjust TAX - driving business bust. It is hitting the same people we want to help. It is fuelling inflation and reducing other continental business from investing in Scotland.
Sadly this policy (and worse if Scotland is partitioned) would even drive offshore employers out of Scotland and move elsewhere.
I propose reverting this trend into limited TAX-FREE ports to suck in investment and stimulate the economy and jobs. This is a better price for jobs provision and prosperity than little extra revenue to the treasury!
FACT: One of the worst travesties of justice and immoral earning is the HIDDEN yet known regressive (and partial) TAXATION in the shape of the LOTTERY!
This is cunning, robbing the poor to pay the rich albeit by illusion and deceit. This is in fact a TAX - taking mainly from the desperate poor to subsidise spending policy. Why don't they come clear, label it properly, or altogether declare it - as many would see it - as a social ill.
On the Environment:
This is the air we breath and water we drink.
I propose an environmental permanent task force, protecting our countryside, NO further damage to the Greenbelt, by using a progressive levy and making polluters pay - money should be channelled back to environmental projects and not to other department's expenditure.
I campaigned with my colleagues against the previous project to turn Pilmuir Quarry in Newton Mearns to a land fill pit.
Scottish Water to remain in public and Scottish hands.
On Roads:
No new roads, but a pragmatic investment in public transport, including electrification of selected bus / trolley routes.
- Personal details used in election:
- I am a 52 year old doctor. I have worked in the past in both the NHS and private sector. I am married with children and have lived in Eastwood Newton Mearns for almost 15 years. Beside my commitment to education through the School Board, I attend area committee meetings and discuss community issues. I was briefly engaged in setting the E.R. Council for Voluntary Organisations but have since left. In addition to the mentioned health and environmental issues I have previously petitioned for Law & Order, and Race Relation cases, and covering community issues in the community newsletter which I edit. I have run for the May 1997 Westminster election as a 'Pro-Life / Human Rights' candidate, in addition to three previous times for the District, Regional and Unitary Authority.
I LOOK FOR THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE YOU IN THE CAPACITY OF AN ELECTED MEMBER. THANK YOU.