Michelle Ballantyne

Former Reform UK MSP for South Scotland

@MBallantyneMSP

Recent appearances

  • Scottish Parliament: Covid-19 2 Mar 2021

    One of my constituents, who is a merchant seafarer who left Scotland to join his cargo ship before the quarantine rules were introduced, now finds himself unable to continue his job unless he accepts not returning to his home and family, and pays most of his salary in quarantine costs between ships. Today, he arrived at Edinburgh airport to be told that he could not be quarantined in...
  • Scottish Parliament: Parliamentary Bureau Motions 3 Feb 2021

    It gives me no pleasure to take up members’ time to speak against the motion, but I feel that it is important to raise how unsatisfactory it is that SSIs are presented to the Parliament with a broad range of elements that we have either to support or reject en masse. I have raised the matter at the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee and hope that, in the next session of Parliament,...
  • Scottish Parliament: Health and Care Workforce 20 Jan 2021

    The emergence of the coronavirus and its subsequent variants has resulted in decisions being made that would have been unthinkable a year ago. The idea that our liberties could be restricted, our livelihoods threatened and our children’s education disrupted is the stuff of nightmares. As a population, we have been asked to step up. Many people have had to make sacrifices that they did not...

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Profile

Former Reform UK MSP for South Scotland

Entered the Scottish Parliament on 23 May 2017 — appointed

Left the Scottish Parliament on 5 May 2021 — Dissolved for election

Party was Conservative until 23 Nov 2020; Independent until 10 Jan 2021

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