Gossip Tory

While scanning the web after conference, re-reading about MPs I met and listened to, I discovered something. During party conference I had the pleasure of briefly meeting the Right Hon. Dr Liam Fox, who was giving a speech at a fringe event on the Tuesday. While I knew about his birthplace, I never even thought [...]

With the presidential elections underway and the result for the most powerful body in the world drawing nearer and nearer, is it time for CF to give their full support to their American cousins. Many Tories I have spoken over the past year have told me how disappointed they were with Ron Paul’s defeat in [...]

The PCC elections is drawing nearer and nearer. Yesterday I was informed by the South Yorkshire Conservatives that their candidate will be announced within the next few weeks. Already are candidates around the country getting ready to battle it out. A poor turnout is expected, and in places like South Yorkshire the coalition is no [...]

The New Voice of the Young Conservatives? “libertarianism, free markets and social liberal”  By Rosalind Hulse- Regional Reporter for Yorkshire and Humber, chairman of South Yorkshire CF. rosalindhulse@hotmail.com.  Many people believe that the best form of democracy or opportunity is variety. More than one option, more than one direction. People often forget that parties like [...]

Government U-Turns Costing More Than They’re Worth? I ask people their views on the U-Turns. By Rosalind Hulse, Regional Reporter for Yorkshire and Humber. Being a proud Tory who is about still in the clutches of state schools I am sadly forced to listen to my teachers yells about the government’s education reforms and my teachers [...]

The Future of The Party: Part I By Rosalind Hulse. Regional Reporter for Yorkshire and Humber In the next three article I will be looking at the future of the party and what people feel. In this first blog I look at the impact of UKIP and talk to one of its members. In part [...]

REGIONAL REPORTER-Yorkshire and Humber Meetings between CF South Yorkshire and local associations are currently going on, the objective is simple, to introduce CF Social Action. As no council elections will be going on during the upcoming academic year, the free time of South Yorkshire’s 16-30 year old Tories can be used to create a positive [...]

“Tories are voting on principle”  ”It’s not a human right to be able to play on Mortal Combat 3″ I was told once that the Socialist Workers Party was like the birth child of Labour, born from its old members and raised by the would have been’s. If that image is true, then the closest thing [...]

Two Prime Ministers in recent years have always been rather similar. Not their ideologies or parties, but something else, the template of their time in power. Maggie became PM in 1979, she stayed in power for just over ten years, she went to war. In her time in power she had line slides, she was almost unstoppable.  ’Call [...]

When you ask someone, anyone! To name a Prime Minister, they will either say Churchill or of course Thatcher. On an opinion poll on the 28th of February 1982 the Tories were 34. The same amount of time in power, the same day of the year David Cameron’s Conservative party is 40, six more than one [...]