Moira Macdonald is the Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Central Devon, we have a profile on her
Born in South Africa, and having lived in various countries in central Africa, Moira emigrated and settled in Devon in 1980. She became a Labour supporter and worked for a number of organisations during the Thatcher era. In particular, she helped form the first Exeter Women’s Centre and was, and still is, involved in trades union work with Nalgo and its successor UNISON. She is currently a coordinator and speaker for Fawcett Devon, an action group affiliated to The Fawcett Society, a national charity which campaigns to close equality gaps between women and men.
She lives with her partner in Exeter and is particularly interested in how rural areas can revitalise themselves as the 21st century advances.
A lifelong cyclist and a volunteer ranger with the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, Moira believes that access to work, local services and leisure is overly reliant on the motor car and that people need more choices available as to how they travel.
She said: “To connect meaningfully with people we need a different political landscape. The old left wing / right wing is now too simplistic. Problems of population, water supply, environmental degradation, climate change, sustainable energy and the impacts of ever more intricate science, medicine and technology: these create global issues that affect us locally.”
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