Dates for your diary......

Friday 29th January
D-Day Ballroom Blitz - Come back with us to war time Britain when, for one special evening, Conservative HQ will travel back in time and you can sing and dance the night away to THE JIMMY GRAHAM BAND and our very own "Golden Girl" Claire Colton -  7.15 pm for 7.45 pm - £13.50 (includes Fish and Chips, a selection of delicious deserts, wine and soft drinks).  RSVP by 22nd January  - Nick Boles attending
(Association)

Friday 5th February
CWO AGM - The Lady Anne's Hotel, Stamford - Speaker: Mr Alistair McGregor, QC, Association Chairman - 11am (tea/coffee from 10.30) - Lunch to follow - £15.50
(CWO)

Friday 26th February
Grantham & Stamford Conservative Association AGM - Conservative HQ, Bourne - 7.30pm

Sunday 7th March
Lunch Time Gathering  - Pawn Brokers, Morkery Lane, Castle Bytham, Grantham, NG33 4SW (bkp of Mrs Pat Bowles MBE and Mr Austin Weldon) - Speaker:  Nick Boles, Conservative PPC for Grantham & Stamford - £12.50
(Bythams)

Sunday 7th March
Folkingham Branch AGM and Lunch - The Houblon Arms, Oasby - further details to follow
(Folkingham Branch)

Wednesday 17th March
CWO Lunch with Edwina Curry - Lady Anne's Hotel, Stamford - further details to follow
(CWO)

Sunday 4th July
Summer Lunch - Willow Holt, Folkingham (bkp Mr and Mrs S Turner) - further details to follow
(Folkingham Branch)

Wednesday 28th July
CWO Business Meeting - Speaker Chris Brigg, John Lewis - meeting 11 am with tea and coffee from 10.30 - lunch.  Further details to follow
(CWO)


Nick Boles

07 JAN 2010

Let the voters have their say

While most people in the country have been worrying about how to get to work through the snow and ice and who's going to look after their children while their school is closed, everyone in Westminster has spent the last two days talking about the latest Labour plot to get rid of Gordon Brown.  I don't know about you but I am heartily sick of these stories.  Gordon Brown has been Prime Minister for the last two years.  The British people had no say in his election to that office.   At the very least, they deserve an opportunity to pass their own verdict on his tenure of it.  And a general election is the way to let them do it.

05 JAN 2010

My NHS, your NHS, our NHS

David Cameron has kicked off the Conservatives' campaign for change with a billboard promising cuts in the budget deficit and not the NHS.  Our opponents doubt the depth and sincerity of the Conservatives' commitment to the NHS.  But I hope that no-one will doubt David Cameron's - or mine.  David has talked of the huge debt he and his family owe the NHS for the way doctors and nurses looked after Ivan and helped make his short life a more bearable one.  What some of you may not know is that I have my own personal reason to thank the NHS.  In the spring of 2007, before I moved to Lincolnshire, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease,  a cancer of the lymph system.  Although I had private health insurance at the time, I relied on the NHS for every aspect of my treatment.  And the care I received throughout several months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy was superb.  Can the NHS be reformed and improved?  Of course it can.  But can I countenance a Britain without it?  Over my dead body.