Local Conservatives

[SRMoore]

As the Deputy Chairman (Membership) of the local Conservative Association it is my job to manage and increase our membership here in Hartlepool.
Whilst we may have a faithful and now active membership, I am always looking to increase our membership, obviously!

I know and have read that many that use this site do vote Conservative at general elections. I would like to invite those people and anyone else who may be conservative minded to join us. I don't just want you to join us though, I want you to stop complaining about what others are doing and what we aren't doing, but help us shape the local party and get involved with everything we do, especially in your wards.

I could go on to tell you exactly why I would love you to join us but I can do it with a short video that was previewed at Conservative party conference by Conservative Home. Whilst the video may be concerned with obtaining a national majority, it shows the party that we want to build here in Hartlepool, a strong and compassionate party, we can only do that with the help of those residents who are conservative minded and want to make a real difference in your local community.

This is what I firmly believe and it's a belief I hope you can share with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDadgeMJAc&sns=em

[The Great Dictator]

Is it free to join ?

[not4me]

I wonder if Mr Wells decides to join.....

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

I can't afford to be a conservative as a worker pleb.

MY standard of living has plummeted since Cameron was given the reigns to hold.

I had to suffer half an hour in the back of an ambulance with a life threatening condition a week ago because of NHS cut backs.
(Closure of Hartlepool A&E will never be accepted as being for the good of the town.)

My childcare bill has doubled over the last couple of years because of cuts in funding.

I've not had a pay rise since the conservatives (well CONDEMs but we know who is the dominant and submissive in that relationship)  came to power  and just received
a leaflet from my employer telling me how great the benefits would be if I invested just £100 of my salary in a pension hahahahahaha.

Then you have the local ultra lazy labour council and MP, so it is a bit of a rock and a hard place in terms of the major political parties.

Were doomed I say DOOMED.

[The Great Dictator]

Labour closed the hospitals.

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

I think both parties have helped screw down the coffin lid 

[SRMoore]

Is it free to join ?

As much as might like it to be I'm afraid not.

Membership costs for 2012/13 are as follows
Single membership = £15
Couple membership = £25
Under 23 years = £5

Further details on membership and my contact information can be found on our website which is linked at the top of HTH as Hartlepool Conservatives.

[SRMoore]

I can't afford to be a conservative as a worker pleb.

MY standard of living has plummeted since Cameron was given the reigns to hold.

I had to suffer half an hour in the back of an ambulance with a life threatening condition a week ago because of NHS cut backs.
(Closure of Hartlepool A&E will never be accepted as being for the good of the town.)

My childcare bill has doubled over the last couple of years because of cuts in funding.

I've not had a pay rise since the conservatives (well CONDEMs but we know who is the dominant and submissive in that relationship)  came to power  and just received
a leaflet from my employer telling me how great the benefits would be if I invested just £100 of my salary in a pension hahahahahaha.

Then you have the local ultra lazy labour council and MP, so it is a bit of a rock and a hard place in terms of the major political parties.

Were doomed I say DOOMED.

I'm sorry to hear you feel that way Stig. As a blue collar conservative I've found that I've generally benefitted from the changes this government has made. My personal tax allowance has gone up, my wife no longer pays tax on her PT job; planned increases in fuel duty of another 10p per litre have been ditched; manufacturing output is on the rise for the first time in a long time. (Something I see a lot of working in a local forge); inflation is down andinterest rate of my morgage has been kept down because of our AAA credit rating.

Our hospital was scupper end by Labour and when it comes to the so called cuts to the NHS, Labour are full of sh*t! We were and are the only party to state that NHS spending would not be cut but rise under us, something that has and is happening. Look at labour controlled Wales which has seen a huge cut to the budget of the NHS! That £40m the NT&H NHS trust has to 'cut' is not a cut at all. They will get the same money they have always had, the trust have even admitted this though you won't find it reported often. They simply have to spend more of their budget in future on preventing illnesses rather than simply treating them. Something the trust tells us was their plan all along under the Momentum plan.
*Sorry for the slight rant. I get rather passionate about the NHS as I owe an awful lot to it*

All of the above is really national politics and although I'm very interested in it, my posting here was to build a stronger local party by increasing our membership and talents. So Stig you're exactly the type of person we want because I firmly believe we aren't the party of the well off, we are the party of those who want to be better off.

[for fawkes sake]

I wonder how many people in the Park ward (or whatever its called now) vote Conservative as a statement of status. "We're Conservatives, don't you know."
I've never really understood the role of a Conservative in Hartlepool over the last few years. When Frank Rogers and the like were around . . . that I could understand.

[SRMoore]

I've never really understood the role of a Conservative in Hartlepool over the last few years. When Frank Rogers and the like were around . . . that I could understand.

The 'role' of a Conservative in Hartlepool or anywhere has never changed so if you knew what the role was when Mr Rogers was around, you know the role today.

[George]

I found out yesterday that I have so much in common with the Conservatives and their values.

When Andrew Mitchell shouted 'out of my way you f###ing pleb' at at a police officer who clearly didn't know his place in the conservative hierarchy he was going to the Carlton Club.

Well how spooky, I used to go to the Carlton Club in Hartlepool and in the back of a Cameron's taxi!

If only I had gone to school at Eton not Seaton I would be a shoe-in for them 

[Lord Elpus]

I've never really understood the role of a Conservative in Hartlepool over the last few years. When Frank Rogers and the like were around . . . that I could understand.

The 'role' of a Conservative in Hartlepool or anywhere has never changed so if you knew what the role was when Mr Rogers was around, you know the role today.

I remember Frank Rogers, Doug Ferriday, Steve Close, Brenda Pearson and they were a million miles away from the current Tory Group with HBC.  The rot set in with Laffy and Hartlepool Conservatives have continued down hill ever since.  I predict by 2014 the tory's will be down to 2 Councillors in Hartlepool.

[steveL]

The role of the 3 individual Tory councillors appears to be quite clear to me. Ray is there to act as the Labour whip; George is there to supply the light entertainment and Vera supplies the Vol-au-Vents. 

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

SRMoor, I appreciate you trying but circumstantially which is what counts to me ....

In the Thatcher years I was stupid to keep a house with a mortgage that went from 30% of family income to 70% of family income.
My standards dropped to dressing myself with clothes from Pound Stretcher. I went from having savings to debts.

In the Condem years, I have not received a pay rise although the international company I work for makes billions and billions ever year.
My mortgage is not a problem this time round but every other regular bill has sky rocketed, so now I am a white collar worker that shops
at Primark for clothes.
I again have gone from having savings to having debts, plus pension contributions have stopped, I have opted out of the 'free' medical insurance
scheme to avoid the tax, child no longer goes to breakfast club, never eat out or even have a take away any more etc. etc.

(Facts not moans)

In other words the fiddling around with the tax system has had no noticeable affect on my life when the Tories have been in power as real world inflation has
crippled me every time they have been in power.

Some of the Tory mantras such as putting more money in your pocket sound good but that has never been delivered.

Until the major parties get out of bed with big companies like Starbucks, Vodaphone, Amazon etc. and collect a respectable amount of tax from them,
then there will be no credibility for the parties at a local or national level. 

Okay so I am not going to be a card carrying Conservative, and the local Labourites couldn't organise a p**s up in Camerons (without it costing millions in consultant fees)
so I do think Hartlepool is doomed by it's blindly loyal voters.

I wish there was a Socialist Workers party, with good socialist values targeted at the WORKING class, making the country a better and more attractive place to work for the  worker.  ....I can dream.

[SRMoore]

I've never really understood the role of a Conservative in Hartlepool over the last few years. When Frank Rogers and the like were around . . . that I could understand.

The 'role' of a Conservative in Hartlepool or anywhere has never changed so if you knew what the role was when Mr Rogers was around, you know the role today.

I remember Frank Rogers, Doug Ferriday, Steve Close, Brenda Pearson and they were a million miles away from the current Tory Group with HBC.  The rot set in with Laffy and Hartlepool Conservatives have continued down hill ever since.  I predict by 2014 the tory's will be down to 2 Councillors in Hartlepool.

I've read this site enough to remember I'd read this prediction before. A quick search later and it turned out it was you who made it before the May election this year Lord Elpus.

I think the Tory's in Hartlepool will be reduced to two Councillors after May and they'll still vote with the Labour group.

Whilst I can understand that many people from various backgrounds and for varying reasons may like to see the local Conservative party fall, I can confirm that we are now stronger than we have been for many years. Membership is on the increase and we are 4 times more active than when I first transferred back to the local party. I fully intend to continue this trend and I'll make no apology for it.