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Alma mater Edinburgh College of Art Website sarahbeattiesmith.wordpress.com Education Edinburgh College of Art (2002–2006), Open University | ||
Sarah beattie smith for south of scotland
Sarah Beattie-Smith is a Scottish politician who was the Scottish Green Party's lead candidate in the South Scotland region in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
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- Sarah beattie smith for south of scotland
- Sarah beattie smith greens on scottish independence 23 august 2014
- Personal and professional life
- Political career
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Beattie-Smith heads up political discussion show with David Greig Two Minute Manifesto, appearing at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Wigtown Book Festival in 2015. She also regularly represents the Greens on the BBC TV's Scottish current affairs programme Scotland 2016.
Sarah beattie smith greens on scottish independence 23 august 2014
Personal and professional life
Beattie-Smith is originally from Biggar, South Lanarkshire, but spent most of her childhood living in near Peebles. She studied Sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art from 2002 to 2006 where she was elected to the position of President of the Students Union.
Having lived in Edinburgh in the years following she now resides in Dunbar, East Lothian.
In her professional life she worked at the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations from 2008–2011 and at Citizen's Advice Scotland from 2011 to 2015.
Political career
From 2014–15 she was Co-convenor of the Edinburgh Green Party and served as Co-Editor of progressive blog Bright Green in the same period.
During the 2014 Referendum on Scottish Independence she was active in the Radical Independence Campaign and National Collective, and became well known for stewarding a semi-permanent Scottish Green Party stall at a police box on Leith Walk, Edinburgh.
In 2015 she was involved in developing the party's policies on energy and public ownership.
Running as the Scottish Green Party candidate in Edinburgh North and Leith, she received 3,140 votes – the party's best ever result in a UK General Election.
Beattie-Smith was chosen as the party's lead candidate for the South Scotland region, by a ballot of the party's membership in April 2015. She went into the 2016 Scottish elections as co-convener of the Greens' elections and campaigns committee. Although she was not elected, the party increased its number of MSPs from two to six in 2016.