One of the more illuminating events at this year’s fringe was put on by the Birmingham Patron’s Club. It was titled “Managing Decline: the future of the Conservative Party in cities”. It centred on the depressing fact that our party’s performance in urban Britain outside London is little better than our much more well-known poor [...]
My god, but the Conservative conference fringe this year seemed a bleak place. Sitting with my conference companions in the ICC coffee shop, flicking through the guide, it seemed that the odd interesting topic or debate was surrounded by innumerable events which can only have been dreamed up by the lobbyists. I don’t know how [...]
Robert Manning, Regional Chairman of North West Conservative Future, has personally welcomed his region’s latest recruit: none other than his former Liberal Democrat opposite number, Cath Bennett. Bennett, who stood down from her role in Liberal Youth and resigned her party membership earlier this week before joining the Conservatives today, released a short statement via [...]
Some of you may have espied the announcement of the new Conservative Future Debating Competition. For an entry fee of £10, pairs of CFers can take part in a national competition set to cumulate in a final held in the Houses of Parliament. This follows a very successful regional tournament held by CF London. As a former [...]
Last week, members of Greater Manchester Conservative Future paid tribute to former Deputy Chairman Mahyar Tousi, who stepped down last week. Personal developments had led to Tousi having to spend the overwhelming majority of his time in London, and it was mutually agreed to allow his Manchester obligations to pass to others able to spend more [...]
Perry Taylor, DC Political of City of Portsmouth CF, triumphed in a close-fought election on Friday night to win a full-time, paid sabbatical position as Vice-President for Welfare & Community at University of Portsmouth Student Union. Taylor led the vote in each of the four rounds, eventually seeing off challenges from the Socialist and Socialist Worker [...]
Have you ever taken the Vote for Policies survey? It was designed before the 2010 election to allow people to assess party manifesto commitments without the tribal labels attached. It’s still useful today. To my mild surprise, my results read: Conservative 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Labour 2, UKIP 5. So like many people in the Tory party, I [...]
Cross-posted from Open Unionism. So – it’s to be 2014. The date with destiny we all knew was coming but tried to place at the back of our minds will come around quicker than the London Olympics (2007 doesn’t seem that long ago, does it, eh?) The Scottish people will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to [...]
Tempers flared at the first meeting of the CF Regional College today as members reacted viciously to a submission proposing Scottish CF into the national organisation. The submission, drafted by North-Western chairman Robert Manning, proposed three limited integration measures: – The SCF President sitting on the National Executive as a form of ‘Scotland Officer’. – [...]
Caroline Lucas is not alone in her mistaken belief that the Falkland Islands are a British colony that we rule in a somehow unjust fashion. The UN includes the Falklands (and indeed all of the British Overseas Territories) as ‘non-self governing’ territories. In this fashion they cast the UK as an imperial oppressor and we [...]
