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Helen Eadie

Scottish politician (1947–2013)

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Scottish politician (1947–2013)

Field	Value
name	Helen Eadie
image	HelenEadieMSPPortrait.jpg
caption	Eadie in 2011
office	Deputy Convener of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
term_start	14 June 2011
term_end	9 November 2013
1blankname	Convener
1namedata	Dave Thompson
predecessor	Marilyn Livingstone
successor	Alex Rowley
office2	Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Cowdenbeath
Dunfermline East (1999–2011)
term_start2	6 May 1999
term_end2	9 November 2013
predecessor2	Constituency established
successor2	Alex Rowley
birthname	Helen Stirling Eadie
birth_date
birth_place	Stenhousemuir, Scotland
death_date
death_place	Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
nationality	Scottish
party	Labour Co-operative
alma_mater	London School of Economics

| honorific-prefix = | honorific-suffix = for Cowdenbeath Dunfermline East (1999–2011)

Helen Stirling Eadie (7 March 1947 – 9 November 2013) was a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cowdenbeath, previously Dunfermline East, from 1999 until her death in 2013.

Early life

Helen Stirling Eadie was born in Stenhousemuir, near Falkirk. She attended Larbert Village School, Larbert High School and Falkirk Technical College before going on to read trade union studies at the London School of Economics.{{cite news |url-status = live

Eadie was a member of Fife Regional Council before being elected the Scottish Parliament in 1999. At the 1997 general election, she contested the Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency as the Labour candidate. She finished in third place, but increased her party's share of the vote to 15% from 8.8% in 1992.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

When Labour was in power in the Scottish Executive, Eadie called for an end to tolls on the Forth Road Bridge.

After the May 2003 Scottish parliament election, Eadie strongly opposed the then Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition's agreed deal to introduce the single transferable vote (STV) proportional system for future local council elections. She said it was an example of "the tail wagging the dog" and "It's about one of the smallest parties in the parliament wanting to use the power that they have to try to force through issues that they want to see steamrollered through."

In November 2006, Eadie called for curfews against under-15 youths, after she was surrounded and trapped inside her car by a mob of youngsters who started rocking the car and throwing missiles at it.

She was a member of many Scottish Parliament committees, but in June 2007 resigned two of her committee posts in protest at a Tory MSP being given a convener-ship of the equal opportunities committee. Eadie said at the time, the move was like "putting Attila the Hun in charge of community care".

Personal life

Eadie was married with two daughters.{{cite book|title=Veteran Labour MSP Helen Eadie has died at 66

References

(1997). "The Times Guide to the House of Commons May 1997". Times Newspapers Ltd.
(9 November 2013). "Labour MSP Helen Eadie dies, aged 66". BBC News online.
(7 November 2013). "Labour MSP Helen Eadie treated for cancer". BBC News.

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