Chris Ballance
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Chris Ballance (born July 7, 1952) is a Scottish Green Party politician and former Member of the Scottish Parliament for South of Scotland. He held a seat on the Parliament's Enterprise and Culture Committee and was the Green's Parliamentary business manager and speaker on nuclear issues, culture and peace.
Born in Worcester, England, he owned and managed a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, won an Edinburgh Fringe First in 1990, and wrote sketches for Radio Scotland before being elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2003. He lost his seat in the 2007 election.
Ballance has written a play, It's My Party, about a fictional MSP, Iona McKinnon. It will be staged in Glasgow in March 2007.[1]
In August 2007 he was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission established by the Scottish Executive.
He is a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
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- Official biography
- Chris Ballance MSP Profile at the Scottish Green Party website
- Chris Ballance MSP Personal website
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