Donald Boyd

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Dr Donald Boyd is standing for The Highland Council in Ward 20 - Inverness South in the election on 3rd May 2012.

Donald is the chairman of the Westhill Community Council, Inverness, and the Leader of the Scottish Christian Party.  He was the lead candidate on the Highlands and Islands Regional list for the Scottish Parliamentary Election in May 2011.

Donald’s leaflet for The Highland Council election.

You may wish to hear and question him at the hustings on 26th April 2012 in Cradlehall Primary School at 7.30 p.m.  In the by-election on 3rd November 2011, the candidates for the major parties were conspicuously silent when it came to public debate.

Vote number 1 for Donald Boyd
There are two Lib Dem Councillors in this ward, and two SNP candidates are standing.  You need more choice than this, and Donald will be an independent and new voice in the Council.  If you support him with your number 1 vote, and your usual party number 2, you will not lose out because your second vote will automatically transfer if Donald does not break through. This means your choice will count intelligently - twice.  This will not work if you do it the other way round; a second vote for the SCP will simply not register if Donald does not have enough number 1 votes.

To contact Donald, phone 01463 796952.

Donald is chairman of the Westhill Community Council and has been central to organising the largest community council input to the traffic management issues around the development of the Beechwood Campus and the University of the Highlands and Islands.  He is also involved with Inverness Civic Trust in securing the best possible option for the Inverness southern bypass and crossing of the river Ness and historic Caledonian Canal.

If Tory, Labour and Green voters want to help the Christian Party rather than each other, these voters should support the Scottish Christian Party number 1 and their own party number 2, and if the SCP fail to make a break-through, these voters will not lose out because their second vote will automatically transfer to their next choice.  This means their choice will count twice.

2007 results in this Ward; detailed results.  The by-election on 3/11/2011 replaced the Labour councillor with a second Lib Dem councillor, by seven votes!

Donald contested the Inverness and Nairn constituency in the May 2010 General Election.

Click
here for the Election leaflet for Highlands and Islands Region.

Donald was appointed Leader in October 2010.  He was campaign manager for the Highlands and Islands for the 2007 Holyrood Election when the Scottish Christian Party came from a standing start to overtake ten established Parties.  As leader he has developed the infra-structure of the Party, organised the membership, organised the first annual Conference in Oct 2011 and led the Party in the transition from the necessary and initial top-down development to the bottom-up development from grass-roots level.  To this end, the Party is fighting the local council elections in May 2012.

He maintains the website with Christian responses to topical issues, and has engaged with the Scottish Government with the most comprehensive Christian response to the consultation on redefining marriage.

Dr Boyd is the Chairman of the Inverness branch of the party with a dedicated team of supporters who see the vision for bringing a Christian Voice into public life.  He stood for the Westminster Parliament in May 2010 in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency against Danny Alexander, MP, with the slogan “Choose a serving Christian instead of a career politician.  One day will fix the next five years.”

Donald is an Inverness-based medical doctor who was educated at Glasgow University.  He keeps fit by working as a Street Pastor and by climbing lampposts during Election campaigns as a substitute for the hill-walking he used to do.  He is currently helping with the first initiative in daytime Street Pastors being pioneered in Inverness.

He is a senior tutor of advanced motoring, a keen historian and genealogist, and an astronomer with special interest in astrophysics.  He has many other interests and spends much time writing, among which is his unpublished commentary on the whole Bible.