How odd...
Credit where credit is due - they may be spouting a load of centrist fudge and drival, but the Young Labour kids are giving this whole Labourlist thing a
good crack of the whip
. There has been a stream of stories this afternoon and TB ended up having a look at their website
, and the relationship it has with the main Labour Party website
. Links to Young Labour and Labour Students are very prominent and the websites contain detailed information about how to join and get involved.This got TB thinking...
The Conservative Future
website
is excellent and finally up to scratch. It has all the information that anyone could want as well as frequently updated content. However lets have a look at conservatives.com
:
Not a single mention on the frontpage, fair enough. However upon further clicking, there is not a single mention of Conservative Future on the Party's website. Why not? You would think that there would be a very prominent link to Conservative Future on the "get involved" section, but no nothing, despite the fact that a well known CF member is used on the other promotional boxes:
Associations across the country are aided and helped every day by their youth members and they will make up the backbone of the ground army come election time. Surely we should be furiously recruiting and promoting the largest political youth movement in Europe?
Just a thought...
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2 comments:
Do you think they might be a bit embarrassed?
I mean you know very well what sort of problems it has, and the various branches don't always get along famously with the local conservative associations.
I think Dave wants as little to go wrong as possible with his landslide victory next year. If CF branches suddenly start having their own voice and giving out FCS style opinions (it's a possibility) that won't reflect well on the compassionate conservativism will it. I'm sure he has enough trouble keeping the less centrist tories in line without having to worry about bloody students.
CF is not the largest youth movement in Europe. Junge Union in Germany has about 100,000 members.