Andrew De Freitas

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In recent General Elections, we have had opposition candidates who, having failed to secure seats in Southern England, are brought into our area. They make all sorts of claims and pretend to have ties with our local community, when in fact they have never worked or lived here and would have preferred to stand for a southern seat.

Grimsby is where my children were born, brought-up and educated, and I am proud of my roots. I have spent most of my life working for and helping local people and I am acutely aware of the needs of our community. I have never had the desire to pursue a political career away from here.

As a life long Liberal, I have always had a strong belief in a fair society. Our citizens have been badly treated by Labour and Tory Governments alike and I also believe they have both lost touch with ordinary people.

I am standing in our Constituency, not because I want to become a career politician who disappears off to Westminster, but because I want to standup for the interests of our community and work hard for our citizens.

BIOGRAPHY

Andrew De Freitas is Leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, a post he has held for the past 4 years.

Andrew was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He was raised and educated in a cosmopolitan community. At the age of fifteen he joined a political youth movement that campaigned against the Communist PPP run-government. Following the 1962 riots and political unrest in the former British colony, he came to London aged 17 on his own. He was employed in the accounts department of Kemps and moved to Grimsby in 1963.

He later joined the transport and shipping industry in Grimsby, with a break between 1977- 1980 when he worked in the Middle East. Prior to becoming a full time Councillor in 2004, Andrew was a self-employed consultant to several shipping companies.

He joined the Grimsby Liberal Party at the age of nineteen and became known in a short space of time as a formidable campaigner on local and national issues.

Andrew won his first Grimsby Council seat in 1969 when he defeated a veteran Labour Councillor in the East Marsh area. At the height of the Falklands Conflict, he won a seat from the Tories in the Park area. To date he has been a local Councillor for thirty-five years.

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