With the news reported in the press over the weekend that Conservative Party Chairman Francis Maude has written a 20-page letter to the Chief Constable of Dorset police haranguing him for the debacle of pass allocations at the party conference last year, we can be fairly certain it will be a long time before we meet again in Bournemouth.
Fortunately, the TRG saw this coming. Not least because, as TRG Chairman, mine was one of the passes that was held up meaning that I managed to miss our own TRG-Mainstream reception on the first night!
So, we have had a poll running for a couple of months now on where TRG supporters would like to see us gather in future. We are now going to close the poll and announce the results, as follows:
The preferred venues for the 2008 and 2009 conferences, are:
1= Birmingham and Manchester (26% each)
3 Brighton (16%)
4= Blackpool and Newcastle (12%)
6 London (9%)
7 Bournemouth – in spite of everything! (2%)
So, the TRG calls upon the Party leadership to be brave and pull us away from the seaside and give Birmingham a try (seeing as we did go to Manchester for the Spring Forum this year)!
Birmingham or Manchester should certainly be tried out as venues for
the main conference. Hopefully it will help the Party to re-connect
with North England where the presence of Conservatives is abysmal!
Comment by Lee Summers — 9 January, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Well lets not forget that in Birmingham we are now (albeit in coalition) in control of the City Council. But absolutely – seats we need to take back, like Stourbridge and Solihull would get a real benefit from the Conference. It would symbolise the real commitment of the Party to the inner cities.
Comment by Tim Crockford — 10 January, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
[...] Filed under: TRG Polls — Timothy Barnes @ 6:18 pm In our poll before Christmas (see here) to find your opinion of the best host towns and cities for thr Tory party conference in future, [...]
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