Edward Mountain

MSP, Highlands & Islands Region
Edward joined the Army after he left school and served for twelve years reaching the rank of Major. During his time in the Army he completed tours in Cyprus, Germany, Canada, Uganda, Spain and Eygpt. On leaving the Army in 1992 he completed a Diploma in Farm Management and a Degree in Rural Land Management. He qualified as professional surveyor in 1998 and worked in Inverness with a large national firm of surveyors. He became a partner in 2004 and left the firm in 2007. He returned home to Speyside to farm where he has a herd of pedigree Simmental cows and grows some 300 acres of malting barley.
Edward is married to Charlotte and has three children the eldest of whom is a serving soldier.

Follow Edward on Facebook at @EdMountainMSP, on Twitter at 1edmountain and on his website https://www.edwardmountainmsp.scot/ where you can see what he has been doing both in Holyrood and around the Region, and see all his planned Constituency Surgery dates and locations.
Edward’s area of interests includes health care provision in the Highlands, supporting the local economy and agriculture and fisheries.  He is a member of the following Committee in the Scottish Parliament:

Edward is also a member of the following Cross-Party Groups in the Scottish Parliament:

See also

SNP Failures

The SNP has become the Sorrow of Scotland: an incompetent cabal driven by a divisive and malign Nationalist Socialist ideology, implementing destructive policies that have seen areas like the economy, education, health and justice wrecked. It is doing real harm to tens of thousands of Scots, but the SNP sees that as a price worth paying to tear apart the Union.
The SNP's ever-growing list of failures in government, and its all-consuming obsession with separation and the destruction of the Union, need to be exposed for what they are: the on-going betrayal of the people of Scotland by an incompetent SNP cabal incapable of making good decisions or exercising good governance. Make no mistake: these are deliberate political decisions, driven by an ideology that does not care what harm it does to Scotland and its people.
The COVID-19 pandemic has, sadly, highlighted just how incompetent key SNP ministers have been, both in preparing for and then coping with such an emergency. The cover-up and blame-avoidance mentality has come to the fore, and - as ever - it is the most vulnerable in Scotland that are paying the price of repeated SNP failure.
On this page you will find a selection of the great swathe of SNP failures, reminders of how the tired and increasingly incoherent SNP government continues to pile catastrophe on chaos. The SNP continues to pursue its destructive obsession with separation - despite the clear and once in a generation democratic decision of you, the Scottish People, to back the Union and reject the core Nationalist policy of separation and division.

Occasionally we will also include examples of why Labour - a party rejected across the UK in 2019 and which still has to properly expunge the foul stain of anti-Semitism - is not to be trusted with anything, and certainly not anything as important as Scotland.

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ARTICLE - Edward Mountain MSP on the future of Cairngorm Mountain

As a newly qualified surveyor in the late 1990s, I watched with interest as the Cairngorm Funicular Railway progressed, from concept to construction. It wasn’t a smooth ride and sadly during the last 19 years it hasn’t become any smoother.