00:00That's the question, if someone came up to you and thought you were famous and asked for an autograph, would you go along with it or would you just...
00:07You know, people do come up to me and believe it or not, they do ask me for autographs.
00:11If somebody confused me with another celebrity, I would have to come clean.
00:15Really? I don't know, I think I'd just go along with it.
00:17I'm Drew Hendry and I'm the Scottish National Party candidate for Inverness Sky and West Russia.
00:23We see charisma playing quite a part in political popularity.
00:27Especially recently, we've seen Boris Johnson, we've seen Nigel Farage, even Trump gain a lot of popularity from their charisma.
00:35What would you mark yourself out of 10 for charisma and why?
00:39Well, it depends if that charisma is being marked against Donald Trump or Boris Johnson.
00:43Because I wouldn't want to mark myself against those guys at all.
00:47Look, those guys are fake.
00:50I think genuine charisma, if people are going to really pay attention to you and listen to you, you have to be as honest and straightforward as you possibly can be.
01:00Just using slogans and trying to be popular or populist, I think obviously it works in the short term for some people, but I don't think that works in the long term.
01:11If charisma is that, I'm not keen to have that charisma.
01:15I just hope that my outgoing nature, the fact that I'm willing to speak to people and listen to people, is charisma enough for folk.
01:22Do you think people being swayed by Farage is down to charisma or down to popularity?
01:29I think it's due to the fact that, for some reason, Nigel Farage, who's failed in every election he's stood in, got elected on the list of the European Parliament.
01:41I think it's down to the fact that he gets so much exposure in the media.
01:44I don't understand why people in the media are in thrall to Nigel Farage.
01:49I think he's got pretty distasteful views.
01:51He's one of the key architects of delivering Brexit, which has caused so much harm to people.
01:57I don't really understand why he gets all the airtime he does, but he does.
02:01I think people are sometimes taken in by saying, oh, he tells it like it is or whatever.
02:06He doesn't.
02:07When they were telling all those lies about Brexit, that wasn't telling it like it is.
02:11That was telling people what they thought they wanted to hear so they could try and win that particular short-term argument.
02:18But in the long term, that's left us with a lot of problems.
02:21I think people like that often do and always do.
02:25If people are attracted by Farage, they're not my kind of people.
02:30The housing market is so bad at the moment.
02:32People are struggling to rent, far less buy a property.
02:35Is that going to change and how can that change?
02:39It's good you're asking me this question today because two bits of information have come out yesterday.
02:44There was data showing that it takes less time for people in Scotland to gain the 20% deposit they need to buy a house than anywhere else in the UK.
02:53The other thing that's been launched is an initiative which is a help to buy scheme by the Scottish Government that will allow young people to get on the housing ladder.
03:03It's been done before and it worked very successfully.
03:05I know people who've been able to take advantage of that here in the Highlands.
03:10I think it's something that's a really good idea.
03:13The equity in it means that you can't sell the property in the same way.
03:19But it does mean that you can get on the housing ladder and you can take these things forward.
03:22How can you ensure that our green spaces aren't going to be impacted detrimentally from this whilst trying to build more houses and properties for people to stop the housing crisis as well?
03:36We do have a lot of land in the Highlands and we have a lot of space and we need to make sure that we're using that properly and considerably.
03:44It is important to have green spaces.
03:46When we were developing the West Link, for example, one of the things we were keen to do was open up land for housing but also create another park, which we managed to do.
03:54So in addition to Wind Park, you've now got another park just next to the canal as well.
03:59There's a lot of land which is zoned already for housing.
04:02I think we need to make sure that we are pressing ahead with that as quickly as we can.
04:07One of the important things about protecting land is building the right kinds of housing.
04:13I talked about short-termism. I think a lot of developers have got away with building five-, four-bedroom houses, three-bedroom houses and not really building the kind of one- and two-bedroom houses that would allow young people in particular to get on the housing ladder.
04:29So yes, we've got to move into the 21st century and beyond, but we've also got to do it in a considerate and careful way.
