Wise words? Ben Harris Quinney, Chairman: The Bow Group, Director: Conservative Grassroots "The nature of the modern Conservative Party Conference reflects its crisis in willing support, Conference is now populated by lobbyists, not members. It offers no freedom and no democratic rights to a membership who barely recognise or connect with what the Party has now become. We are often warned by the current Conservative Party leadership of the dire socialist republic that awaits us if Ed Milliband succeeds Cameron as Prime Minister in 2015, but the last 3 years have proven that there really is no discernible difference, at least to the general public, between any of the major political parties. It is this failure that underpins the results we are now seeing: membership of all Parliamentary parties at rock bottom, confidence in all major party leaders at a historic low: a citizenry broadly apathetic to politics as a whole. The British public and the few remaining Party members will only tolerate the status quo for so long. The question for the next 25 years of the British political party is not funding, be it state, union or private donor, it is existence itself.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:00:42 +0000
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