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New UKIP Scotland chairman

Tuesday, 4th October 2011

Fife Councillor Mike Scott-Hayward has been elected chairman of UKIP Scotland following an Extraordinary General Meeting this week.

Mr Scott-Hawyard replaces Paul Henke who has stood down due to his continuing, successful book-writing commitments.
 
Nigel Farage the Party Leader congratulated him on his new post, and said: "Mike has the necessary talents and ability to move UKIP Scotland to new territories. He has shown over the years both through his vision and his capacity for hard work that electoral success in Scotland is well within UKIP's capacity. I look forward to working with him closely to help bring the message of an independent Britain a reality.
 
In his acceptance speech Mike said he wanted to encourage UKIP Scotland to keep several themes to the fore in campaigning.
 
He said: "We stand for a nation that is British and Sovereign, free from outside diktats; we have excellent pragmatic policies to promote, indeed, some of which are being now used by parties in power, a victory for our thinking; we are a party of the United Kingdom, and not one that will roll over in bits in the face of attempts to break up the UK. 

"Our task now is to recruit candidates for next year's council elections to give the electorate a proper democratic choice and the chance to vote for something better than EU appeasement or being smothered by local bureaucrats."
 

About Cllr Mike Scott-Hayward

 
Mike was brought up in South Africa. He moved to Scotland and joined the Royal Artillery, serving in Germany, England, Northern Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Cyprus, Belize, Oman and Scotland. He has commanded Gun Batteries in Oman and Germany and worked for the Adjutant General in Whitehall at the MOD.
 
Mike entered politics as a Conservative with a by-election victory at Crail in 1987, ousting the Liberal Democrats. He served for more than four years on North East Fife District Council and was on the Planning, Housing, Recreation and Licensing Committees, and the then Local Health Council and Local Tourist Board.
 
He has stood for Parliament in Dunfermline West in 1992, Edinburgh Central in 1997 and North East Fife in 2001 and 2005. He twice contested the Scottish Parliamentary seat of Kirkcaldy. In 2010, he stood for UKIP in the North East Fife seat at the Westminster election and also in 2011 for the Scottish elections.
 
In October 1999, he won a Fife Council by-election in Elie, St Monans and Pittenweem and is still a serving Councillor. He is full-time operational Watch Officer with HM Coastguard.

In the Conservatives, he was the Chairman of the Scottish Environment Policy Committee, the Candidates’ Association and later the Conservative Association Chairman in North East Fife. He left the Conservatives in February 2008 when David Cameron broke with traditional Conservative policies. Mike then joined UKIP in September 2008 and is currently Chairman of the Fife Branch.
 
In Fife Council Mike is currently on his Area Committee, which covers all local council matters and planning in particular. An ex-officio member of many Trusts, he is also on the Licensing and Regulation Committee and on the Policy, Finance and Asset Management Committee.  He has previously served on the Licensing Board, Social Work Committee and on the Police, Fire and Community Safety Committee.
 
A man of wide political experience Mike is looking forward to using his experiences to help take UKIP Scotland and its members onward to new levels in Scottish politics starting at next May's Council elections.

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