Stephanie McWilliam UKIP PPC
Stephanie McWilliam is a 57 year old widow with two grown up daughters. Her family moved from Bristol to Cornwall in 1963 so she considers herself very nearly adopted Cornish! She was a radiographer for 30 years, then a management consultant and is now starting up a new company to provide a better option for business travellers. She is also a volunteer visitor for the Injured Jockeys Fund and plays clarinet in the local orchestra.
She describes herself as honest, optimistic and calm but can be determined, vocal and opinionated. She believes her redeeming features here are a good sense of humour and the ability to disagree with someone without falling out with them.
Stephanie joined the UK Independence Party in 2002, having previously voted Conservative but never having joined the party. She was a passive member until last year, when she stood in the local council elections and became a committee member for the S. E. Cornwall branch.
She believes we have far too many regulations, mainly from the EU, telling us what we can and can’t do, what we can say and increasingly what we must think and believe. As a result, too many people are abdicating all responsibility for their own actions and lives, leaving everything to the State. She is deeply concerned that, as a result, tens of thousands of people are leaving this country every month to live abroad.
In broad terms, then, she believes in individual responsibility, small government and low taxes.
Stephanie thinks the most important issues are tax and the economy, migration – in both directions – and law and order. In all of these areas, she sees our membership of the EU as a disadvantage, hampering our ability to make the right decisions for the UK.
One of her main concerns is the lack of engagement in the political process by our young people and she is currently organising a cross-party event for the under thirties across the county.
My e-mail address is: stephanie.mcwilliam at ukipcornwall.org.uk.
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