From the Blue Blog: James Deighton, one of Conservative Future’s area chairmen, blogs on the recent election campaign.
Well it’s certainly been a busy time in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland, with the recent County Council and EU elections earlier this month. As the Conservative Future (CF) Area Chairman I have been actively engaged in the campaigns across the counties, helping our candidates, and meeting the different CF groups. Because of this I though it would be a good idea to use my first post on the blog to give you a …

From the Blue Blog: Serene John-Richards looks at whether young people are indifferent towards politics, or just political parties.
It is perhaps common knowledge that young people are apathetic about politics – it has been said that they don’t care enough to vote and are too preoccupied with Glastonbury and suchlike.
How then can we explain massive turnouts of young people at various protests? More and more young people are opting to support single issue campaigns instead of political parties. Of those, even more hold pre-conceived ideas about political parties and are …