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• Week Twelve: Don’t Kick Yourself

  Politics is a bug. Once you catch the bug, it is rare a cure can be found. Even repeated electoral disasters cannot cure you of the disease (Ted Heath kept losing general elections but he was convinced he could have won in the late 1970s).
  There will be times when you will wish you attended an [...]

• YBF & CF Training Event at Party Conference 2009

  Sunday 4th October from 12 noon – Don’t miss out on CF and YBF’s official half day conference!
  Following the success of the training day in Birmingham last year, Young Britons’ Foundation and Conservative Future  will be teaming up to hold a half day conference just for Conservative Future members. This will take place on the [...]

• Week Eleven: Know Your Enemy

  In today’s hectic multimedia age, it is easy only to spend time reading blogs, websites or newspapers with whom you are in agreement. That is a very dangerous course for the conservative activist to take. It is imperative to be as well read as possible – not just so that you know what your opponents [...]

• Week Thirteen: Ask Questions

  One of the wisest pieces of advice I have heard handed out to students comes from Patrick Coyle, the Vice-President of the Young America’s Foundation. Pat reminds student activists that while it is all well and good having views as to who should be the Republican Party’s nominee or what the basic rate of income [...]