Officers and Committee for Michaelmas 2009

June 12th, 2009

Following the Elections and TGM of 12th June, the following members are elected to serve as the Executive and Committee for Michaelmas 2009

Officers

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Chairman
Caroline Cummins, Newnham College

 

 

 

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Vice-Chairman
Gavin Rice, Queens’ College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fergus

Junior Treasurer
Fergus McGhee, Trinity College

Callum Wood, Campaigns Officer 2009

Campaigns Officer
Callum Wood, Queens’ College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Secretary
Charles Read, Christ’s College
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Registrar
John Oxley, Gonville and Caius College

Committee

 

 

 

Daniel Benedykdaniel-benedykChrist’s College

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Magdalene College

Alex Cakiralex-cakirSt John’s College

Miss Emma KirbykirbySidney Sussex College

Christopher G PoelpoelQueens’ College

Hugh BurlingHugh Burling

[Chairman Easter '09]

 Ben SlingoslingoPeterhouse

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URGENT - GARDEN PARTY

June 5th, 2009

PLEASE PAY FOR THE GARDEN PARTY IN ADVANCE

I know this is awkward and inconvenient for many, but SJC outlaws on-the-door payment. Please try to get payment to Hugh Burling of St Johns College (hdpb2) ASAP.

Apologies.

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Deadlines

May 22nd, 2009

A few deadlines for you all (sorry!)

ABSOLUTE FINAL DEADLINE for the Chairman’s Dinner (click here for details) is the 4th June.

£35 for members, else £40

The deadline for Garden Party bookings will be the 12th June. If you can’t manage to send me a cheque or cash before then (£10 members, £15 else), reply to this e-mail to reserve a place and I can take payment on the day.

All cheques payable to “Cambridge Uni. Conservative Association” and sent to Hugh Burling of St John’s College

CUCA elections for Michaelmas 2009:

Nominations for Committee Members, a Registrar, a Secretary and a Vice Chairman open on the 29th May at 1opm, running until the 5th June at 10pm. The election(s) (if any) will be held on the 12th June.

Completed nomiation forms should be sent  along with a photocopy of your Party Membership Card at to Callum Wood atQueens’ College.

Note that you must have attended 3 events this term in order to stand; those running for Secretary/Registar/VC must have been to 2 campaigns sessions. Chapter Five of the Constitution deals with eligibility. Please email the RO for more information.

Nomination forms can be found here.

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Upcoming events

May 8th, 2009

A quick update on upcoming events:

9th May: PORT AND CHEESE - Green Room of Caius College at 8pm - £6/£8. Please email hdpb2 in advance.

11th May: Owen Paterson (with CUIS)

Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland11th May  - Kennedy Room of CUS at 715.

12th May: Michael Howard 

Michael Howard is coming to visit CUCA to address us once more. His Party leadership, electoral gains, and record of speechesmichaelhoward in the House speak to the great experience, insight and political ability that he will be bringing to his old haunt, the Cambridge Union Building.

Michael Howard is MP for Folkestone and Hythe, once Union President, former Home Secretary; ex-leader of the Conservative Party, and CUCA’s own President.

Kennedy Room - 7pm

For Dinner with our speakers afterwards, please contact the Chairman (hdpb2)

12th June: Easter Chairman’s Dinner -  Newnham Hall, £35/£40

GARDEN PARTY - 15th JUNE

ADVANCE BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

in St John’s Scholar’s Garden at 2:30

Join CUCA and the committee of the Coningsby Club in St John’s Scholars Garden on the Monday of May Week. Join in a game of croquet or just take it easy with a glass of champagne.This year for the first time the CUCA Garden Party will be enlivened by a mystery theme, to be announced at the Chairman’s Dinner. We’ll be serving strawberries and cream, Pimms, cake and Grand Marques Louis Dornier Brut NV, “A light, fresh, vigorously youthful champagne with a fine, elegant, slightly lemony nose, lively mousse and long, crisp palate”.

Thanks to the Jaqueboot’s latest licensing restrictions, Garden Parties must now be booked in advance - places will be £10 members, £15 non-members and from today you can book by e-mailing chairman@cuca.org.uk and sending a cheque made out to Cambridge University Conservative Association to his pigeonhole - Hugh Burling, CUCA, St John’s College.

Dress Code: blazers, no trainers or jeans.

With thanks to the Coningsby Club for sponsorship.

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The Cambridge Union is Proud of Margaret Thatcher

May 8th, 2009

Cambridge Union rightly voted in favour of the motion “This House is proud of Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister”. John Redwood, james-sharpe-in-the-chairPeter Lilley and Edward Leigh did a great job of standing up for Mrs Thatcher. Our own James Winfield Arthur Edward Sharpe III was in the chair, quite beautifully.

Come discuss the result at PORT AND CHEESE on SATURDAY 9th MAY in the Green Room of Caius College. £6 for members else £8 .

Excerpt from John Redwood’s Blog:

“I said five things that I felt needed saying.

1. Margaret in office was always most concerned personally about people around her, supporting them in dredwood-speakingifficulties, writing notes to them at times of trouble and showing great courtesy. She would always ask what could the UK do to help whenever she heard of a tragedy anywhere in the world. She was the best boss I ever worked for.

2. She helped Ronnie Reagan win the Cold War. Surely it is good news that Eastern Europe has been liberated from the grip of communism? That was only possible because the Western alliance was resolute in the 1980s.

3. At home she introduced demcoracy to the Unions. She wanted Aurthur Scragill to ballot his members about a strike. His failure to do so split his Union, and represented a challenge to the legal authority of Parliament.

4. She allowed many more people to buy their own home, and shares in the business they worked for. She believed in empowering more people through ownership. She championed the worker and the saver against the vested interests of the establishment.redwood-replying

5. She taxed the rich more . She knew that if you set lower and more realistic rates of tax, the rich will come here, stay here, create jobs here. It worked. Mr Blair kept those rates. Mr Brown is changing them in a way which will damage both the country and his party.”

Coming Up:

CUCA Speaker Meetings are FREE and OPEN TO ALL

Owen Paterson (with CUIS)

Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

-11th May  - Kennedy Room of CUS at 715.

Michael Howard 

Home Secretary ‘93-’97 (crime down 18%); Party Leader ‘03-’05 (seats up to 198); President of CUCA

12th May - Kennedy Room of CUS at 7pmmichaelhoward

For Dinner with our speakers afterwards, please contact the Chairman (hdpb2)

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Events this week (4th-9th May)

May 3rd, 2009

Frederick Forsyth will address members of both CUCA and CUS in the Kennedy Room, in the Union building, at 7pm on Bank Holiday Monday (4th), to be introduced by a member of the TaxPayers’ Alliance: free and open to all.frederick-forsyth

Frederick Forsyth is the celebrated journalist turned novelist whose thrillers are so factually accurate and insightful as to be prophetic. He’s coming to the Union in his capacity as a political commentator and staunch Eurosceptic to explain how the EU damages British democracy and resists democratic reform of itself.

For any Thatcherites out there, or simply bon vivants who want to try out the Union’s cocktail menu, join us beforehand in the bar from 6pm for an informal “Margaret Thatcher Day Cocktails”.

Note also that this week’s UNION DEBATE held on Thursday the 7th will be “This house is proud of Margaret Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister” - sure to be riveting with Peter Lilley and John Redwood defending the Iron Lady against Lucas F-S and Ian Gibson. It’d be good to see a large CUCA contingent there to balance out the lefties.

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Port and Cheese
will be in the Green Room at Caius College,

Saturday 9th May at 8pm

Dress Code: Black Tie

£6 for members, else £8 - please send cheques payable to “Cambridge University Conservative Association” to Hugh Burling of St John’s College

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Petition to tell Gordon Brown to resign

April 25th, 2009

As Mrs Thatcher told CUCA in 1976, “He must go — and go now.”

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/

Please sign this petition. Could it go viral? Tell all your friends and it might.

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Facebook

June 17th, 2009

Please click here to see our new facebook page, which you can become a fan of. This is an awkward transition from the traditional CUCA group on facebook, but the specific page offers a much more interactive and useful way of communicating with members.

If I’ve been very clever and got it to work, posts (like this one) should automatically appear as notes of the facebook page, meaning that you can follow almost everything that happens in one place… hopefully.

 

Callum

(wearing the webmaster hat)

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Easter Term 2009

April 19th, 2009

Welcome back! To make up for the brevity of Easter term, we have a line-up that’s jam-packed with CUCA fun and frolics.

Fristly, Click HERE to see the termcard for Easter 2009.

Secondly, a welcome from this term’s executive, beautifully captured by our Chairman:

Chairman: Hugh “Jintao” Burling

Vice Chairman and CF Member: caroline_cummins

Caroline Cummins

 See “Who’s Who” for full details of the Officers, Committee and their roles.

Secretary and Loyal Englishman:

Gavin Rice

Junior Treasurer: fergus_mcgheeFergus “Chalk-stripe” McGhee

Campaigns Officer: INDESTRUCTIBLEcallum_woodCallum Wood

The Crack Registrar: charles_readCharles Read

The first event of term is our notorious

GIN AND TONIC PARTY

To be held in the BATEMAN ROOM of Caius College

Friday 24th April at 8pm

£2 or free for members (inluding those joining on the night)

Please watch this space for more event details - more will be added once the colour termcards are finalised.

As always, we have a stream of political opinion and humour on our blog. This latest excerpt is the work of Ben Gadsby: There is a temptation, I think, amongst Conservative supporters and campaigners to think the game is won. We’re consistently over 10 points ahead in the polls (17 this morning), the Labour Government is dogged by scandal – how can the next election not be a Conservative victory? … read more here

Keep an eye on facebook and your inboxes for details of Campaigns Sessions.

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Update: pre-Easter Term 2009

April 8th, 2009

1. CUCA has a tie. It is silver with magenta stripes. You can still buy them from A.E. Clothier, and also Charles Tyrwhitt, T.M Lewin and Ede & Ravenscroft.

2. We need writers for the blog on the website.

Whilst there is some sort of signing up you can do to write directly, I am lazy and so tend to just e-mail my musings to Callum Wood, our campaigns officer and current webmaster (cpw36).

3. I also am looking for skilled volunteer cake-chefs for the Garden Party. Reply to me at hdpb2 if you like squeezing elaborate icing-designs.

Pax Christi,

Hugh Burling
(Chairman)

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Dominic Grieve QC MP

March 6th, 2009

Dominic Grieve

31 March 2009, 19:30 for 20:00
Royal Overseas League, London

Dominic Grieve is the Shadow Justice Secretary, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield. Until recently he was the Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Attorney General.

Please join us for this very special Coningsby Club event.

Coningsby Club dinners are £42 per head for a three-course meal (excluding wine).

Dress Code: Black Tie

To book, please send a cheque made payable to the “Coningsby Club” for £42 to Sarah Abram, Brick Court Chambers, 7-8 Essex Street, London WC2R 3LD. Alternatively, you can book online at http://www.coningsbyclub.co.uk/

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