TRG Midlands
2/10/2009
TRG Midlands
Welcome to the online home of TRG Midlands!
The TRG Midlands Group was established this summer and reflects the fact that TRG is a national organisation, not simply a metropolitan one. As a recent London émigré, I am all too conscious how London-centric politics in this country can be. TRG Midlands will work to change that.
The Tory Party is alive and well here in Birmingham and elsewhere in the Midlands. We're by far the largest party on Birmingham City Council (running the council in partnership with the Liberals) and we have outright control of, for example, Walsall, Dudley, Solihull, Lincoln and Nuneaton councils. Throughout the Midlands, constituency associations are growing and campaigns across the region's many target seats are progressing well.
Whilst our party is enjoying considerable electoral success in the region and is poised to enjoy even more, members do not enjoy the same breadth and diversity of political activities that one finds, for example, in London. Unlike in London, where there is an array of ‘extra-curricular' Tory aligned groups, the same cannot be said of the Midlands. This is where *trumpet fanfare* the TRG comes in, stage centre.
I want to establish the TRG as the primary vehicle for the advancement of progressive Tory thinking in the Midlands. Our party is now, overwhelmingly, the dominant party of local government in the Midlands and this gives Midlands TRG a great opportunity to promote the cause of liberal Conservatism and to see it implemented in city, town and county halls throughout the region.
I want to see the TRG act as a recruiting sergeant for constituency associations that are still badly in need of young and intellectually curious members. In the coming year, I will be putting together an active calendar of TRG social and political events to attract new blood into the party here. We will be putting together a launch event for later this year. If you would like to get involved, please contact me here.
Cllr Gareth Compton
TRG Board Member with responsibility for the Midlands
October 2009.
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