According to Mr. Malik, Scotland has been endowed with a wealth of natural bounty, e.g. the oil and the vast sea resources. Despite this, there is an all-too-obvious and ever-growing poverty, ill health and unemployment prevalent among the Glaswegians. The rich-poor gap is widening and the pockets of poverty mushrooming. We need to set a balance between what is being done for the cosmetic upper-level changes and the real down-to-earth development of the common people.

The SNP has all that is needed to bring the required changes. The fore-most factor which can materialize the change is freedom from the shackles of the Great Britain. An independent Scotland has the potential to make headway towards a destiny which, as I see it, most Scottish people cherish today.

Seeing Scotland free is thus the prime agenda for which Mr. Malik have since the last over 10 years spent his time and resource. The other main areas of his concern are:

1) Minority integration: This is Mr. Malik’s own observation and the fact that he have picked out from studies into the politics of today. There is contrasting difference of make-up between especially the Muslim minorities from the South who have migrated here in UK with those who have migrated to USA. Those who came here after the WWII were working, mainly the laborer class, while immigrants to the USA in the later half of ‘70s had been the affluent Arabs and the studious South Asians. The immigrants to UK and Scotland could not therefore integrate in their new homelands like their counterparts did in USA. Resultantly, there is today an ever-growing rift among the natives and the immigrants in UK and Scotland. The sporadic acts of violence like the London and Madrid bombing by the self-starter indigenous groups is alarming aspect towards which meager attention is being paid today. Mr. Malik wants to integrate today’s immigrants in their societies and thus work for cohesion, safety and security of each and every member of the Scottish society.
2) Sports facilities: Studies indicate that there are meager sports facilities for the youth in Scotland. Mr. Malik is rather disappointed by the general conduct of the younger generation. They hang about in the streets and loiter around wasting their own and their parents’ vital resource. He wants to bring them in to healthy activities like the sports. For this, he has a plan to employ youth for designing and implementing recreational and sports activities for themselves.
3) General cleanliness: Not a day passes by when the media does not report a story or two about the filthy conditions of especially the Pollokshields area. Pollokshields and the adjacent areas have been spoiled by the litter and dog refuse in very particular. Mr. Malik is appalled by the situation and has in mind a code of conduct for citizens which if implemented by the Glasgow Council shall bring the fresh look back.

This is the least that we can put here as ‘why vote for Mr. Malik.’ Space constraint does not allow more on this.

Thanks for your comment and being the first of the candidates campaign supporters to grasp the nettle!

The ward is the subject of the post: Pollokshields. The SNP website still has it listed as Pollokshields East though.

The candidate summary appears to have been brushed up and expanded a little since I last visited (or my memory is rusty!). The grammar has, I think, improved (and I should hardly be the first to criticise given Janet’s comments about my own grammar!), but his overview still reads strangely (eg. “Mr. Malik has been the member of Scottish National Party (SNP) since a decade”).

Trivial grammar issues aside – I care much less about this than my post might imply – I’m actually much more interested in knowing what Mr Malik is proposing to strive for as a prospective councillor for the ward?

Why should we be voting for him over the other candidates? What are his key problems about how things have been dealt with by the previous councillors in the last four years?

Does your candidate have a website or some campaign leaflets that better set out his position? I’d be happy to change the content here if there’s somewhere better I can link to.

Thanks again for your comment!

Regards,

Richard.

With regards,

M. Ahmed
Campaign Manager
K. Malik for Councillor