Blog Posts

  • Public help Conservative candidate attacked

    Public rallies to support Conservatives as candidate attacked on New Square Cambridge. Members of the public rallied to help Alex Boyd, the Conservative candidate for Market ward, when he and his team of Conservative campaigners were attacked on the street in broad daylight. At around 10.30am on Saturday 17th May, Alex Boyd was manning a Read more

  • Elections 2014 – some thoughts on Labour

    People have gone through a tough recession. Wages have stayed the same for some time, food prices have gone up and some vital benefit changes have been made. It is surprising that Labour are not streets ahead in the polls. People are often rather selfish in their voting patterns. What’s in it for me? Labour Read more

  • Labour fail to stand up to unions.

    The Electoral Commission donation figures, published yesterday, show that the Labour Party remain financially dependent on the trade unions. Ed Miliband said he’d stand up to his union paymasters like Len McCluskey – but he’s failed and broken his promise. Not only have Unite given their biggest ever donation to Ed Miliband, they’ve also said Read more

  • Cambridge candidate suspended from Lib Dems but still on ballot paper as a Lib Dem

    Colin Rosenstiel is suspended from the Lib Dem group on Cambridge City Council over child assault charge – but will still be on ballot paper for party in May’s elections. This is because Colin notified his party too late for them to meet the deadline for nominations to have his name removed. The Lib Dems Read more

  • Office for National Statistics show that Conservative long-term economic plan is working

    New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that our long-term economic plan is working with nearly 1.6 million more people in work since the election. These strong jobs numbers are excellent news, and a clear sign that our long-term economic plan is working. There are now a record number of jobs in Britain Read more

  • Hustings – Keynes Hall, King’s College on Friday 16th May. All welcome

    I’m looking forward to a great debate at Kings College on friday. As always the student organisers have done a fabulous job in arranging everything. They have created a Facebook event that can be found here : http://goo.gl/GQMB2F I will be speaking on behalf of the Conservatives and putting forward a positive message why voting Read more