Katy Gordon

Katy has called for the 60th year of the NHS to be the beginning of a radical redesign in the delivery community healthcare, with the focus on ensuring all elements of the NHS provide healthcare 24 hours a day.

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As part of Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Packaging Awareness Day, Katy joined Glasgow Councillors and members of the public outside the Sainsburys supermarket in Crow Road last weekend, Partick to demonstrate against excessive packaging.

Shoppers were encouraged to sign a petition calling for an end to excessive product packaging and the use of compostable and recyclable materials.

Jake Wilson, from Glasgow Friends of the Earth commented:

“Food packaging costs households £470 per year – that’s one sixth of the average food budget! In addition, over 40 percent of household rubbish that goes into landfill is supermarket packaging.”

“Most of it is unnecessary and is only adding to Scotland’s growing waste mountain.  Over-packaged goods waste a huge amount of valuable resources -  we hope that Sainsburys will listen and reduce the amount of packaging accordingly. The real challenge is to avoid waste in the first place – we want to see supermarkets composting their own food waste and providing biodegradable sources of packaging.”

Katy commented:

“I’m glad to be supporting local efforts at reducing excess packaging. The Liberal Democrats are leading the efforts in Parliament to tackle this problem. “

A spokesman for Sainsbury’s said:

“We are completely committed to reducing the amount of packaging we use and making that packaging we do use recyclable.”

Katy and Cllr Mary Paris joined local residents at the Cadder Gala Day festivities. After Mary opened the gala, they spoke to local residents and organisations in the community centre and braved the rain showers to see the ever popular climbing wall, new canoing event and the fairground rides.

Katy was joined by Robert Brown MSP and Cllrs Mary Paris & Kenneth Elder at the inaugural Friends of Old Station Park Gala Day. The Liberal Democrat stall proved popular, as did the free pizza. Katy commented:

“The day has clearly been a success, both in getting people to use the park and also to see the plans for its refurbishment. This is a great but underused space. Whether by cutting back the overgrown trees to increase visibility, fixing the paths or coming up with better suggestions for usage, it is important the the community has their say. My colleague, Cllr Elder will certainly be respresenting the views of residents as part of the FOSP committee. I was also delighted to win the top raffle prize of the FOSP cake. I will need to do a lot more campaigning out and about to work off the effects!”

Katy and Cllr Mary Paris greatly enjoyed the inaugural Maryhill Community Council Gala Day at Ledgowan Community Hall. There was huge support from the local residents, particularly for the talent contest. Katy said:

“This has been really well organised, with different activities to appeal to all. There are a number of local organisations here to raise awareness of their work and the healthy eating stall was particularly popular. I hope the gala is repeated next year and it just shows you what can come from an idea by one local resident who wanted to bring the community together and give young people something positive to be involved in.”