Today I have been leafleting in Watford – my first time! I was leafleting to help the fantastic [and hilarious] Conservative PPC Ian Oakley take the seat away from the failing and useless Claire Ward.
It was great fun campaigning with other people, mostly Conservative Future members including a candidate for CF chairman, and will hopefully go some way towards getting more Conservative votes in Watford – and with less than two thousand votes between all three parties at the last parliamentary election [no matter what the Fib Dems claim], every …

University campuses are often regarded as breeding grounds of the Left. But, really, they’re not all that much so any more. Certainly in my experience at Essex, once a hot-bed a Lefty radicalism, the lecturers were far more so than the students. But I don’t think that these new posters [via Shane Greer], produced by the Young Britons’ Foundation really work very well.

They don’t really mean anything, or say anything. I think they are underestimating and over-sexualising students by proposing such posters.
Shane thinks …

David Cameron and the Conservative Party are calling for Brown to “stop dithering” about whether or not to call an election, and effectively tells him to ‘bring it on’. At the same time, William Hague says at the conference in Blackpool that “the Conservative Party is ready, it is hungry for victory and if Gordon Brown ever summons up the courage to call an election we are going to beat him.”
The polls appear to say the opposite, giving Brown leads of 7-11 points – if the election was tomorrow, of …

It is very rare for me to quote pretty much an entire blog post, but I just have to with this one by John Moorcroft:
One of the most pleasing things to come out of the Top 100 Right of Centre Bloggers list was just how many of the websites featured are maintained by CF members. The highest CF Blogger was Caroline Hunt, with the excellent Sinclair’s Musings following in swiftly behind. Others included on the list were Martine Martin (who is now giving blogging up…), Paul Bristow, ThunderDragon, Birmingham University …