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This Friday is Dudley North Conservative Association’s annual dinner at the Lodge, Dudley. This year’s guest speaker is the Shadow Environment, Food and Rural affairs spokesman, Nick Herbert MP. Several Conservative Future members will be attending and will be asking Nick specific questions about Conservative policy regarding the environment and food. If you have any questions you would like CF to ask on your behalf then please email them to dudley@conservativefuture.com

Dudley Conservative Future Vice-Chairman Joe Millward has been selected as the Conservative Candidate for the Castle and Priory Ward in the 2010 local elections. Speaking at the last CF meeting Joe who, at the age of 18, is the youngest ever Conservative Candidate in the Dudley Borough, said he was ‘delighted’ at being selected. “People are fed up at the moment with ‘old style’ polticians. The electorate want a fresh choice, a different choice and a local choice. I am delighted at being selected as the candidate and I will try my hardest as a candidate to try to achieve the best possible outcome for local residents.”

If you would like to help Joe in his election campaign please join:

http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=136109521626
http://joemillward.co.uk

The parliamentary campaign is gathering momentum in Halesowen & Rowley Regis. We topped the poll in Halesowen on 4th June but we still have a huge amount of work to do and to make sure we win in Halesowen & Rowley Regis whenever Gordon Brown calls the General Election.

Come and join James Morris in one of the key wards in this vital battleground seat.

We will be canvassing and leafleting in the morning and the afternoon with a pub lunch in between. Join us for all or part of the day.

All support will be greatly appreciated in helping to win this seat and secure a Conservative majority at the next General Election.

Let us know if you can make it.

Meet at 10am at the Haden Cross pub in Halesowen Road, B64 7JD

The Express & Star
How to win back trust

Trust in politicians is very low at the moment, and I can understand why.

The expenses scandal has left many people feeling very angry and the inability of many of today’s politicians to give a straight answer to a simple question has left many people wondering whether there is any point voting any more.
 
Some MPs, from all parties, have done things that were wrong – whether or not they were within the rules. David Cameron is right to have apologised for the actions of some Conservative MPs. But more than an apology, taxpayers deserve action to put things right.
 
David Cameron has set up a scrutiny panel to review every excessive expense claim made by a Conservative MP and agree with them how much money they will pay back. He has been very clear that anyone in the Conservative Party who refuses to accept the decision of this panel will not be allowed to continue as a Conservative MP. He has also imposed additional rules on Conservative MPs. They will have to:

• publish each and every expense claim on-line;
• only claim for what is necessary to do the job;
• not ‘flip’ their first and second homes to maximise what they can claim; and
• pay capital gains tax when they sell a home on which the mortgage interest payments have been paid by the taxpayer. 

If politicians want to regain people’s trust, one thing they could do is to be straight with people when they get asked a difficult question.

Gordon Brown’s repeated denials that he is planning to cut public spending are making him look increasingly ridiculous. We should have the confidence to tell the public the truth – that Britain faces a debt crisis.

Chris Kelly
Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Dudley South