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Young voters now prefer May to Corbyn.

Young Voters Now Prefer May to Corbyn - Guido Fawkes Mike Smithson notes that Corbyn’s lead with young voters has evaporated since the turn of the year. For the first time since the election with Opinium, May now leads with 18-34 year olds. So much for the Youthquake?

Good luck to everyone that has exams over the next few weeks.

Good luck to everyone who is taking their exams over the next few weeks.

Some of our members were campaigning in Coventry with the Warwick University Conservatives on Saturday. The Warwick Pride President has now apologised for the comments she made on Twitter.

Warwick Pride President causes ‘hurt and outrage’ after tweeting ‘Tory g**s f**k off’ Warwick Pride is an organisation ‘committed to providing a safe, supportive and friendly atmosphere’

Council elections were held yesterday. This graph shows the number of councillors by the party they represent:
Data provided by the House of Commons Library.

Here's a handy graph from showing that Labour's high water mark in local government was the mid-1990s. Surprisingly, Conservatives not far off historic highs. And look at the Lib Dems fall off a cliff after 2010

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NHS budgets will now be used more effectively.
A prescription for paracetamol costs the NHS over £30.00, whereas in Nottingham shops paracetamol is less than 50p.

Paracetamol BANNED on the NHS as prescriptions stopped for 35 minor illnesses PATIENTS will no longer be able to get paracetamol and other over-the-counter remedies to treat 35 conditions on the NHS. Under drastic cost-saving plans doctors will be banned from routinely dolin…

Today marks 5 years since the passing of perhaps the greatest leader of our time – Baroness Thatcher.

To refer to her still as the Iron Lady, I believe, is an insult to her memory – for iron has the capacity to bend. She is much more comparable, rather, to that of steel.

She turned the Tory party on its head: she was disliked by Aristocratic Conservatives, she wasn’t a typical Tory Toff, she wasn’t ‘one of the boys’, and she was never going to be a member of the Bullingdon Club.

She insisted her policy was ‘for people in all walks of life’, and, although she had some tough decisions to make, which were not applauded by everyone, I believe that it was.

She was closer to the average working person than her predecessors. She understood the aspirations of working-class people who wanted more for themselves, because she was one. She wasn’t working on the side of the Toffs, like many Conservatives are, perhaps rightly so, accused of today. Rather, she transformed the lives of ordinary working Britons.

When she first walked into Number 10, British society worked as a solid hierarchy – everyone had their place and it didn’t change. If you grew up in a working-class background, you were going to stay there, and your children were going to stay there. If your parents grew up in a council house, you were going to grow up in a council house. There was no use for ambition – you were either born there or you didn’t belong there. It was effectively North Korea but without the hope.

The idea was that the working class were never going to have much in life, they were just going to survive, and the government would maybe try and look after them a little bit. Their prospects were pretty grim. This idea shook Mrs. Thatcher to the core. She recognised that people wanted more than the State handing them stuff. And so, she led a revolution which, for the first time in British history, saw the working-class moving up the ladder.

The Labour government, which superseded her for many years, complained about she had done, but they kept what she had done. The only criticism that they truly had to make against her was that she converted many of what they thought to be their own people.

It’s no secret that she ruffled a lot of feathers because of her dogmatic approach. Around the cabinet table, it was only her opinion that counted. But what she did, she did out of a sincere and whole-hearted belief that what she was doing was for the genuine benefit and good of the country – which is more than we can say for most of the ‘career’ politicians that we see today.

Whether you loved her or loathed her, one thing that can be certain is that the Thatcher Revolution, as it is known, changed Britain forever.

I remember the grim days of high taxes. That's why we are determined to bring them down Since my early days in business in the 1970s, when Britain’s top rate of income tax was 98 per cent, I have always understood the power of lower taxes and stronger incentives to stimulate economic growth.

The Conservative government are increasing the student loan repayment threshold from £21,000 to £25,000, meaning that people leaving university will be able to earn more before paying back their loans.
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Student loan repayment threshold rises How a higher threshold for tuition fee loan repayments could save English and Welsh graduates cash.