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STRG Reception in Parliament
I have just got back from another great Student Tory Reform Group reception in Parliament. This annual event is always and fun and this year was no different!
A whole host of politicians came along to chat: Charles Hendry, Ian Taylor (host), Alistair Burt, Dominic Grieve, John Bercow, IDS, Tim Boswell, Lord Hunt of Wirral to name the ones that I saw! Ken Clarke was the guest of honour and as always stole the show; you will have to wait for The Caerulean newsletter to find out more!
Thank you very much to STRG for inviting us and it was great to see so many CF branch members from around the country!
Were you at the event? Leave a comment and tell us what you thought of it!
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January 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
bumble fumble wumble it was tip top tastic!!!!
January 30th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
I think the tone of the TRG generally is pretty well explained by Alistair Burt’s comment that they had been waiting for forty years for their ideology to return to the fold. Such a refusal to partake in the celebration of the Thatcher government is a sad indictment of their ideology and organisation. Being surrounded by such self-congratulatory Ted Heath-alike dinosaurs is not particularly fun. Nonetheless, I did enjoy eating a ridiculous number of KitKats, which almost covered the cost of admission, and Ann Widdecombe’s home-made chocolate cornflakey things were very popular indeed.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Yes, five of us attended from Bath. Three of us are standing at the back in the picture above. Not me though.
I wondered to myself at the time, just how many people turned up because they were TRG supporters or because it was just an event in London? Oliver is certainly at least one that was not, it would seem, much interested in the affairs of the TRG. I am sure there were many others.
The speech by Ken Clarke was good, if a little short - I was expecting longer to be honest. A good night I think on the whole though.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Well Cooper, if you don’t agree with the TRG why bother going to their events? You are obviously so passionate about your beliefs that you are prepared to relinquish them and pay into the TRG coffers if it gets you a whiff of Parliament.
January 30th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Having never gone to a TRG event before, I can’t say that I was forewarned of the wretched snivelling of both the significants and insignificants of our party that would emerge in the comfort of a supposedly partisan event. I’m passionate enough about my beliefs that I certainly won’t go again unless there’s a bloody good reason. Such as more of Iain Duncan Smith’s delicious muffins, for example.
And let’s not call each other by our surnames, Davenport. I didn’t go to a public school, and I think I dodged a bullet on that one.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:17 am
Errrrrr well I thought it was a lovely evening, and I look on these events as just a nice way of meting our fellow peers thoughout the realm and what better a setting!
January 31st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I don’t want this to develop into a spat, but I think it is bloody rude to complain about an event (I thought it was actually really good, well done Richard!) which people put a lot of effort into organising.
I shall also remind Cooper that it was Thatcher who put Clarke, Burt, Hunt etc into Government initially.