The Conservative Party conference is in Manchester this week – a city that is historically Labour through and through, so, what the Tories have up their sleeves to prove their streets cred and tempt the younger voters in the North West to vote Blue.
It may come as a surprise to some people but there are actually members of the Conservative Party that are under 30!
Despite David Cameron’s best efforts to appeal to Britain’s youth, with his ‘cycle to work to set an example but have my bags driven into the office behind me ’ stance on the green issue and, ‘getting down with the kids’ on inner city visits, the jury is still out as to whether the Tory Party is a viable and attractive choice for Britain’s under 26’s.
It is quite apparent that although we are sick of Labour, Britain’s Generation Y or ‘Millenials’ don’t have a party that really appeals… until now maybe? Is their secret weapon the next generation of Conservative Party members – the Young Tories?
Their new policies on pensions, healthcare, education and public service reform (among others) are all being outlined this week at the Manchester Central conference centre and while this is all very worthy and probably massively important (and I will at some point take the time to have a look at their key points on the BBC website) I’m more interested in what the Young Tories have got planned.
On Wednesday 07 October the Young Tories are set to take over Manchester’s biggest nightclub Pure at The Printworks for a night of Rollerdisco! – I can just see it now, blue suits, top buttons undone and ties either at a jaunty angle or wrapped around heads, Rambo style to Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’…brilliant!
As if this wasn’t enough (I can feel my vote swaying already), Boris Johnson is rumoured to be joining the organised fun. In his own words “[Manchester is] one of the few great British cities I have yet to insult” and a part of me wants him to try.
This is the man that when talking about drugs said
“I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.”
And on voting Tory
“Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.”
Cutting down 24 hour drinking is a card that the Tories plan to use in the forthcoming General Election but shouldn’t this probably mean the conference centre bar should shut at 11pm and the Young Tories should be tucked up in their plush hotel suites before midnight? Who cares I say, this is much more appealing, I can see the Diary page in the MEN already; ‘Boris Bashes Bum in attempt to get down with the kids”.
A poll around the office seems to show that although David Cameron is the best thing to happen to the Conservative Party for quite a while, his Blair-ish similarities are seen as old hat and the rest of the party are labeled Old Dodderers and Wolves in Sheep’s clothing, but I say if this is a party that in the next few years will be run by youths with ties wrapped round their heads dancing to disco whilst on Roller-boots then they have my vote!
By Robbie Platt, Account Executive
