Mobile: +447710389336

Location: Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

Ten Facts about Nasser Butt

 

  • Ancestors from Srinagar, Kashmir but grew up, educated, graduated and qualified as an accountant in England.Comes from family traditions of saw mill owners, entrepreneurs, risk takers and pioneers.

  • He is pioneer and challenges all boundaries for change and progress.Has a family home in Wandsworth since 1974. A family man, married in Wandsworth Town hall in 1984 to Rukhsana who grew up here went to Burntwood School and they have four children who grew up in Wandsworth and went to Wandsworth schools here.A community and charity volunteer since 1982.
  • Has made significant and sustained contributions to several human rights related charities over this period. Continuing to serve some of these charities working towards finding peace in different parts of the world.Currently campaigning for abolition of capital punishments and blasphemy laws in countries with corrupt legal systems and abuse of human rights.
  • Commercially astute and helped built a number of small and large businesses as Senior Finance Manager.Served Liberal Democrats for 20 years and its leading Asian campaigner, spokesperson and local regional and national levels.Successful election successes against Labour and Tories since 2002.
  • Former Councillor in Sutton and proud challenger of Tory seat of Mole Valley in 2005 General Election.Passionate believer in power to the people, democratic accountability, fairer society, social responsibility providing a safety net for the less fortunate, and strong family units with strong family values.
  • Believes that Politics and Religion should remain separate and absolute equality must be observed by local and national governments in order to serve all citizens regardless of their personal background.
  • Nasser arrived in UK in 1971 and grew up with secondary and higher education in Yorkshire. Graduated in London in Finance in 1982. Enjoyed the Rock concerts and experienced the phenomenal and most memorable cultural changes of the seventies.
  • Nasser is married to Rukhsana, who grew up in Wandsworth and went to local Burntwood School, now a mathematician & local secondary school teacher. They have four children.
  • Nasser comes from a family running sawmills across the great Indian/Pakistani cities during six decades.
  • Nasser started a Finance career in the eighties, qualified as an accountant and started his senior finance managerial roles in the 1990’s working for numerous small and multi-national IT and Telecom companies as financial controller. Acquiring his specialist skills of building organisations by working for fast growing start-ups.

 
The seventies and eighties saw Nasser also contribute to a youth culture in Bradford. Nasser ran the hilly Bradford Marathon to raise funds for a Youth group in 1983, his most challenging fitness programme ever. He than cycled Bradford to London in a Cycle Marathon in 1989. He has done numerous half-marathon walks since the mid-eighties the latest one being in June 2009. Nasser was Captain of both Cricket and Football teams in School and competed for under-18 West Yorkshire Badminton championships in late seventies.
 
Nineties started with Gulf War and Nasser’s involvement in Politics from 1991 whilst living in Crawley, Sussex. The Balkans war also drove Nasser to two Charities serving the survivors’ of ethnic cleansing of Bosnians in the first half of the nineties. Nasser has also worked for the independence of the Kurds, Palestinians and Kashmiris in their cause for peace and self-determination since the late nineties. More recently Nasser has been supporting calls for abolition of Blasphemy Laws and Capital punishment in Pakistan because of the large scale miscarriage of justice in the country.
 
Twenty first century started with Nasser joining a team of Trustees to start a Charity called Amicus/Fresh Vision to help socially excluded in the South-East England with help with accommodation, work, training and house furnishing.
 
Nasser has been actively liaising with British national organisations and activists campaigning against Labour Govrnment’s illegal war in Iraq and illegal Rendition / Internments / Tortures based around Guanatamo Bay, Belmarsh and other prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq.
 
Nasser joined the Liberal Democrat Party in 1991 with an ambition to change and influence things in Britain. With like-minded friends, Nasser initially founded a Libdems Multi-Faith Forum in the first year of joining and remained its Chair for 8 years. Its purpose was to educate the Politicians about campaigning with people from other Faiths and Cultures living in Britain and inputting to Party’s Domestic and International policy development.
 
Nasser restructured the Ethnic Minority LibDem organisation that was to work for and engagement with the ethnic minorities of Britain.
 
Nasser has been a regular contributor to shaping the Federal and Regional policies of Liberal Democrats since 1992, chairing fringe meetings, making speeches at policy debates and tackling the issues.
 
Nasser has served numerous local, regional and national committees of the Lib Dem Party. Nasser has served as a Trainer within and outside the Party, mentoring candidates on campaigning with ethnic minorities.
 
Nasser started the front line elections by winning a Tory Council Seat in 2002 by 5 votes in London Borough of Sutton and served four years in a mixed Ward with Two Tories.
 
Nasser was selected Parliamentary Candidate in 2003 for Mole Valley constituency in Surrey for 2005 General Elections. Here Nasser increased his vote share by 1.5% and increased Lib Dem vote by 10.5% against the sitting Tory MP and squeezed Labour vote by some 35%.
 
In 2004, Nasser’s vision led a team to consolidate the Muslim Vote from Labour to Lib Dems by setting up a national organisation, Lib Dem Muslim Forum. This was then followed by the other Two Parties when they setup their Forums too.
 
Nasser’s genes are those of entrepreneurial ancestors and he has been a catalyst for change for over the last 30 years, working with like-minded people in commercial and voluntary organisations, building teams and organisations, throughout managing the media and being outspoken on issues and policies.
 
With all this growing experience and expertise, Nasser feels his best years are still ahead of him!