Scottish conference review
by colintaylor | February 21st, 2010
I may be forgiven for only writing a blog post a week after the event but only now are some of us recovering. On the 12th of February the party held its Scottish conference in the Dewars Centre in Perth. In a break with normal protocol this years event was only a one day affair. Still that didn’t stop some of our delegation from going up the night before where they attended the blue review and gave some of Perth’s public houses much revenue. The bulk of our group went up on the Friday morning where we met up with the others who were looking a bit worse for wear from the previous night’s proceedings.
We were greeted with an opening address from Andrew Fulton, the chairman of the party, then there were numerous speeches from candidates in our very important target seats. Annabel closed the morning with an entertaining speech then it was off to the CFS fringe event where we were addressed by Bill Aitken and Alex Johnstone on the importance of the Conservative youth movement. After that we went back to the main hall to hear a very informative speech from Michael Gove. But undoubtedly the main event was the closing speech by David Cameron. Always an impressive public speaker, he outdid himself this time and went down well with the female portion of our group. We left in suitably high spirits and off to dinner with Peter Lyburn, the candidate for Perth and North Perthshire.
Whilst some of our lot had to leave on the Friday, Peter offered accomodation at his house for those who chose to stay. After a period of being lost and larking about in the forest, thinking Carlsberg would improve our directional skills, Peter eventually came and pointed us in the right direction of his house. After a couple more beers and picking Peter’s brain about our fortunes we retired for the night in our sleeping bags.
The next day we awoke early, some feeling better than others, and proceeded to our meeting point in Perth where we particpated in an action day to rally support for Peter’s campaign. We canvassed, leafleted and went on a walkabout of Perth city centre. All in all a very productive day. Peter was kind enough to buy us a couple of pints afterwards and after Glasgow young Tories were the first to arrive, we were the last to leave, catching a train back to the second city of the Empire. All of us who attended both days greatly enjoyed ourselves. A big thank you to the party and Peter for making our time in Perth so enjoyable.
I may be forgiven for only writing a blog post a week after the event but only now are some of us recovering. On the 12th of February the party held its Scottish conference in the Dewars Centre in Perth. In a break with normal protocol this years event was only a one day affair. Still that didn’t stop some of our delegation from going up the night before where they attended the blue review and gave some of Perth’s public houses much revenue. The bulk of our group went up on the Friday morning where we met up with the others who were looking a bit worse for wear from the previous night’s proceedings.
We were greeted with an opening address from Andrew Fulton, the chairman of the party, then there were numerous speeches from candidates in our very important target seats. Annabel closed the morning with an entertaining speech then it was off to the CFS fringe event where we were addressed by Bill Aitken and Alex Johnstone on the importance of the Conservative youth movement. After that we went back to the main hall to hear a very informative speech from Michael Gove. But undoubtedly the main event was the closing speech by David Cameron. Always an impressive public speaker, he outdid himself this time and went down well with the female portion of our group. We left in suitably high spirits and off to dinner with Peter Lyburn, the candidate for Perth and North Perthshire.
Whilst some of our lot had to leave on the Friday, Peter offered accomodation at his house for those who chose to stay. After a period of being lost and larking about in the forest, thinking Carlsberg would improve our directional skills, Peter eventually came and pointed us in the right direction of his house. After a couple more beers and picking Peter’s brain about our fortunes we retired for the night in our sleeping bags.
The next day we awoke early, some feeling better than others, and proceeded to our meeting point in Perth where we particpated in an action day to rally support for Peter’s campaign. We canvassed, leafleted and went on a walkabout of Perth city centre. All in all a very productive day. Peter was kind enough to buy us a couple of pints afterwards and after Glasgow young Tories were the first to arrive, we were the last to leave, catching a train back to the second city of the Empire. All of us who attended both days greatly enjoyed ourselves. A big thank you to the party and Peter for making our time in Perth so enjoyable.
