Cole-Hamilton: Balancing Party Duties & Local Service

0:00It's April 23rd. This is Edinburgh News today. Local news powered by AI. Alex Cole Hamilton, the 48-year-old leader of the Scottish Lib Dems, is running for the new Edinburgh Northwestern seat while juggling his. Party duties. He's held a nearby constituency for 10 years and wants to keep serving locals where he lives, raises his kids, and knows the issues inside out. Earlier this week, he joined a litter pick in Portobello with surfers against sewage, using it to spotlight problems like anti-social driving by. Modified cars and queens ferry, overcrowded schools needing expansions, heavy traffic from new housing and raw sewage dumping into the river almond. These diverse neighborhoods face unique headaches from population booms, straining resources, to ongoing clashes with the gypsy traveler community in, areas like Drumbrey and Gile. Cole Hamilton tackled some through public meetings and even got a national task force started, but solutions lag.

1:01He's pushing a clean water act to monitor outflows, ban unnecessary sewage releases, and upgrade old pipes. On AI data centers, he backs them for Scotland's economy and net zero goals using northern renewables for jobs, but says Edinburgh's council was right, to pause them locally amid pushback. Using leadership, and this race feels natural to him after a decade in the game, where he once pulled the highest votes ever for a candidate at, over 25,000. He's all in on fixing what hits home for these communities.