CF Campaigning – Turning Britain Blue
Conservative Future is here to create the future of our party. Over the last decade this ideahas been slowly eroded, and sometimes it can feel like we’ve just become leafleting andcanvassing fodder. I am using my first policy announcement to explain how to breathe newlife into our approach to campaigns.
1.Super Saturdays
Regular campaigning + regular fun
-Many of our best activities have used the strength of regional co-ordination.
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To make the most of this, I pledge to reintroduce
Super Saturdays
acampaign event in a specific place in each region every first Saturday of the month.
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Working around planning for priority campaigns during elections,Members will be able to request a
Super Saturday
to be held in their area.-Each Chairman will be tasked with ensuring the events stay fun!
2.Making Campaigning Fun Again
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While some of members of CF are happy to go campaigning on aSaturday we look for ways to encourage more people to get involved.-Every campaign must have a social event tied to it whether that be a pubmeeting after campaign or going into town afterwards or going for alunchtime pub meeting
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Associations will be urged to sponsor their local CF events, whether money behind the bar afterwards or providing a decent lunch tohardworking members.
3.Campaigning Accountability
-Elected Regional Chairmen will have campaign activity as a key measureof success, and held accountable should nothing be happening.-Regional Campaign Managers will also be elected, ensuring a sense of responsibility and accountability for keeping up activity.
4.Local Campaigning
-We will continue to support our members getting involved and informed inlocal campaigns across the country.
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Regions and National Resources will be targeted on areas or branchesthat need particular attention to be helped up to standard.-Regional Chairmen will be tasked with supporting members who want toorganise campaign days.-Campaigns will be a priority responsibility of the National Chair.
5.Communication of Campaigns
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Conservativefuture.com will be used as the main channel for communicating campaign days, by-elections and all other campaigns.-We will utilize mapping, social media and other resources to coordinateour campaigning activity nationwide.
6.Creative Campaigning
-From giant boots stamping on new growth, to masked Alistair Darlings,our creative campaigning has gone down a storm in recent years.
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We will continue to attack the opposition policies, past and present, usingthese visible and eye catching tactics.
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We will begin the process of attacking unsound policies and tacticsemployed by the trade unions.
7.AV
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The most important campaign we fight next year will be against theintroduction of AV.
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We must support our leader David Cameron and need to fight tooth andnail to preserve the current FPTP electoral system-As soon as the anti-campaign proper begins we will use our Super Saturdays to campaign against the AV system
8.Campaigning for Students
-We must crush the monopoly that Labour Students have on our Students’Unions and the NUS – pushing through ridiculous policies and makingthese bodies out of touch with many of our members, and wasting our cash.-Every Regional Chairman will be encouraged to work with their UniversityBranch Chairman to run University specific campaigns.-We will have a target of getting at least one CF member elected as anofficer in each Students’ Union in the country, and support their campaigns.-We will provide national support for university branches in holdingdebates on the Graduate Tax and other education issues.
9.Local Government and Assembly Elections
-Local councils and regional government are a great opportunity for CFmembers to have a real impact.-We will actively support, encourage, and resource members in runningfor positions in their council, assembly or other bodies.-I will be launching ideas to get more young people involved in localgovernment in the next few weeks
10.Campaign Training
-We will form new partnerships, and grow old ones with organizations likeYBF in order to support the training and development of members inareas from leadership to media training, public speaking – in fact any of the skills we hear you want!-We will work to support our members who have aspirations to rise withinthe party, ensuring that we are truly given the opportunity to shape thefuture of the Conservatives.We are the next generation of the Conservative Party. I believe that we can combinesupporting our current crop of candidates and ministers with gaining personal benefits for our members, and having fun along the way.
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Ben Howletts first major policy announcement of the Conservative Future National Chairman election 2010.
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