Colin Fox (politician)
Colin Fox ( born June 17, 1959 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP).
Political career
Fox attended Our Lady's School in Motherwell and Bell College in Hamilton. First, he was active in the youth organization of the Labour Party, but was then a founding member of the SSP. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 Fox was set to the first rank of the regional election list of his party in the election Lothians region. Since the SSP was able to win only around 1.6 % of the second votes in this region, Fox failed to reach the newly created Scottish Parliament clearly. To the direct mandate of a single constituency, Fox not applied. Also in 1999 he was a candidate on the list of candidates for the European elections, but won no mandate. 2001 and later again in 2003 he applied unsuccessfully for a seat on the city council of Edinburgh. The British general election, 2001 Fox was erected for the constituency of Edinburgh South. He was able to unite 2.5% of the vote, narrowly missing the direct mandate significantly.
In the Scottish Parliament elections 2003 Fox again took a first place at the Regional Evaluation of his party in the election Lothians region. On the basis of the election results, he succeeded in the catchment in the Scottish Parliament. After Party leader Tommy Sheridan in 2004 resigned from the party presidency and finally in 2006 the new party founded Solidarity, first made all SSP members together the party leadership. In a close vote, it was decided to select a single party leader again towards the end of 2004. In February 2005, Fox was elected the new party leader. Later, a double peak was installed and Fox leads since the party along with Frances Curran. Also in the 2007 parliamentary elections, Fox was the top candidate in the SSP Lothians, but lost as a result of the election results from his position and retired from the Parliament from. Fox also appeared in the following elections in 2011 as a leading candidate, but missed the but -time entry into parliament.
Controversy
To draw attention to the lack of arrangements of Parliament to ensure the right to demonstrations outside the Gleneagles Hotel in the framework of the G8 summit in 2005, Fox interfered with some party colleagues the question time at Parliament. As a result, he was expelled along with three other SSP politicians for a month from the Parliament. His monthly salary, as well as his employees were retained.