My Week

Nicola Ross is the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Dundee West. In this blog, Nicola, who has Cerebral Palsy, gives us an insight in to recent week’s worth of campaigning activity.

I attended training for the candidates and election agents. The training covered nominations and elections expenses. This week is when the nominations open for parliamentary candidates and nomination forms need to be filled in correctly to ensure my candidacy is made official. Afterwards I met with

The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party’s general election campaign launch at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. This gave me the opportunity to catch up with other candidates and to find out how their campaigns are progressing. This was topped off by a speech by Ruth Davidson as well as a photo call

I did some telephone canvassing. It is good to be canvassing in the comfort of a soft chair without having to negotiate masses of uneven pavement and stairs. I then joined the One in Five campaign for their launch at the Scottish Parliament. There are many barriers to disabled people participating i

I submitted my nomination form for the General Election; I was now the official Conservative parliamentary candidate for Dundee West. In the evening I attended a party association meeting. At the meeting we marked off the areas that had already been leafleted. There was still a lot of ground still t

Friday I was out leafleting in the constituency. Leafleting can be difficult for someone that has a disability that affects their balance. Houses that have stairs with no railings are impossible for me, this is where I rely on the help of volunteers to leaflet in the houses that I would not be able

Leafleting again in the morning and trying to catch up with e-mails in the afternoon. As a candidate, you receive numerous e-mails on a range of topics, although many are from internet generated sites which send standard e-mails. This means that you have an inbox full of e-mails that are all exactly