Member of The Scottish Parliament
Kenny MacAskill of the SNP, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, has represented the seat since the 2007 election. He was previously an MSP for the Lothians regional list from 1999 to 2007.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Susan Deacon | Labour | |
| 2003 | |||
| 2007 | Kenny MacAskill | Scottish National Party | |
Read more about this topic: Edinburgh East And Musselburgh (Scottish Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes containing the words member of the, member of, member, scottish and/or parliament:
“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”
—Man Ray (1890–1976)
“Better wear out shoes than sheets.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in J. Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs (1721)
“A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body.... It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.”
—John Pym (1584–1643)