Monthly Archives: October 2009

Eric Pickles and Hoodies

Conservative Party Chairman and MP for Brentwood and Ongar, Eric Pickles was the speaker at our event last night. He managed to keep up entertained with tales of his experiences in the party, the effects and importance of schemes like the Social Action projects and how it is important that we win the next election [...]

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UCLU Conservative Society hoodies and rugby shirts soon available to order!

Hello All, Just a quick note to say that UCL Conservative hoodies and rugby shirts will be available to order shortly. The design will be in white, with the Conservative Party’s green and blue ’tree’ logo on the right hand side of the hoodie, with ’UCLU’ and the society’s name surrounding it. The back of the hoodie [...]

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Port and Policy Review

This week’s event was one of our most popular- Port and Policy, the idea was simply we all listen to two serious debates and a balloon debate while enjoying some Port and cheese. The first debate saw Adam Sawyer and Arthur Verdin debating ‘This House Believes that Students should contribute more to their University Education’. [...]

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Up Coming Events-Port and Policy

On behalf of the rest of the Committee I would like to invite you to our second event of the term, happening this Tuesday 20th October at 7:30 in the Haldane Room, – Port and Policy! For those of you who read the events programme and are now slightly confused by a difference to the [...]

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Last chance!

For all those in the society who are interested in attending the upcoming Young Britons’ Foundation Training Conference at Wellington College you have until Monday 11:59pm to apply. So get your skates on! Previous Training Conferences have proved to be an excellent and incredibly useful experience for anyone hoping to have a career in politics. [...]

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Freshers Gin and Tonic Event

Last night UCL Conservative Society started the new academic year off with a bang with our annual Welcome Receiption. As always it was an excellent chance for new members to find out a little more about the Society and our events while sipping on the classier of drinks the Gin and Tonic. The evening was [...]

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Something to celebrate

Earlier in the year UCL Conservative Society asked you to vote for us in the Total Politics Top Political Blogs competition and we are pleased to announce that we can in 80th place. Yay! It may seem like quite a low ranking but we were in competition with blogs that have a much higher fan [...]

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Welcome!

A very warm welcome to any Freshers and/or Newbies who are visiting our website for the very first time, as a way to welcome you to the site and to the UCL Conservative Society each member of this year’s committee has written a welcome message and mini introduction about themselves so that you will know [...]

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CF/YBF’s Manchester Half-Day Conference

On a clear Sunday morning, before the official start of this year’s Conservative Conference, assorted activists from across Britain came to Manchester University’s Renold Building to attend the half-day training event run jointly by Conservative Future and the Young Britons’ Foundation. The morning started with an address from CF Chairman, Michael Rock as he set [...]

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