As a Conservative it is very frustrating. The Labour party probably experienced the same from May 1979 until Blair’s entry in 1994.

In the last four days the Conservative Party has issued press releases on:

  • Welfare Reform
  • Alcohol Licensing Changes
  • Religious Hatred Legislation
  • Primary School Failure rates at 44%
  • Tax Reform (which, to be fair, was reported on as a flat tax proposal - it wasn’t - and Gordon Brown was allowed to spout a lie about it being unfair on those on low incomes (click here for evidence)
  • The 14 day detention period increase to 3 months
  • Prison overfilling
  • Avian flu
  • Brown’s plans to raise taxes
  • Prescott’s surrender on the EU Rebate
  • Climate Change
  • Regionalisation of Emergency Services
  • The Electoral Administration Bill

There has been very little about any of these topics in the media of late. This could be for one of two reasons. Maybe the information is not interesting and so not useful to journalists, or maybe it is too much information?

I think the Conservative party should issue this information - it is important that they publish their opinions. I think what would be more interesting to journalists, though, is information that is not dictated by the Labour Party’s policies.

How interested would the public be if the sort of information picked up in the ‘non-news’ sections of the Spectator, The Times or Daily Telegraph were what the Conservatives were telling us? We would notice the Conservatives’ opinions and we would start to notice them as a party with policies rather than as a group of people with an opinion on the government’s policies.


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