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Are party
conferences
still worthwhile?
John Major’s
The importance of crisis leadership
In a crisis of this sort, it is essential that the government
is seen to be active and engaged. Looking to impose
his leadership on the response to the floods, David
Cameron called off a trip to the middle east and chaired
regular morning meetings of Cobra, the emergency
committee. There were good reasons for this:
• Cameron had not forgotten that back in 2007 he was
criticised for being absent from his own flood-hit
Witney constituency.
• In 2005 George W. Bush took a political battering
following his slow response to the effects of
Hurricane Katrina.
In contrast, Barack Obama’s assured handling of
Hurricane Sandy in late 2012 may have contributed
to his election win in November of that year.
The blame game
As the UK floods worsened the government was
criticised in the media for the perception that it was
slow to act in the early stages of the bad weather. Several
commentators suggested that Downing Street was in
panic mode. By mid-February Cameron had declared
that ‘money is no object’ when it comes to flood relief.
His increasing visibility was designed to send out
reassuring signals that the government did care.
It was not only the government that was being blamed
— or doing the blaming — for an alleged inadequate
response. The organisation that manages river and
coastal flooding, the Environment Agency (EA), and its
chairman, Chris Smith, took heavy criticism for both an
alleged lack of visibility on the ground and for its longerterm approach to flood management.
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political grenade
In the wake of John Major’s comments
this month about the elitist nature of
British society, Ian Richards asks whether
the Tories are still too posh to prosper
J
ohn Major has rarely hit the headlines since he
left No 10 in 1997. However, on 10 November
this year Major made a speech criticising Britain’s
declining levels of social mobility. He questioned the
power enjoyed by a narrow social and educational
elite who dominate the top tier of UK professions.
Although the speech blamed successive governments
for failing to challenge this elite, it was interpreted as a
none-too-subtle side-swipe at the current Conservative
administration. Toby Young of the Spectator asked,
A
FOTOLIA
Floods and high winds caused havoc in much of southern Britain this winter.
Ian Richards looks at the political storms that resulted
•
With the last of the major party
conferences behind us, do you sometimes
wonder what the point is of these
annual gatherings of the faithful?
Ian Richards asks if these
conferences still have any value
‘Why is he lobbing grenades at the current Conservative
leadership?’
This followed criticisms some months ago that
Cameron was appointing too many Old Etonians to his
inner circle. David Davis MP stated bluntly, ‘No more
Etonian advisers’.
Out of touch?
There is no doubt that there is a damaging perception
that the Tory party continues to be dominated by a
narrow social and educational elite. The implication of
this view is that the Tory leadership fails to understand
the everyday lives of most of the British public. It is
this second concern (that Cameron and his circle are
out of touch) that has led many Tories to worry about
the party’s electoral prospects in 2015. John Major’s
fter a long summer holiday, MPs returned to
Westminster in early September 2013 but only
for a few short weeks. By mid-September they
had left again for their party conferences. Below are
three reasons why party conferences are still valuable,
followed by three reasons why they are outdated and no
longer worthwhile. What do you think?
Yes, they are worthwhile
1 At a time when interest in party politics is at an alltime low, the annual party conference season gives
parties valuable airtime and the temporary oxygen
of publicity. Television coverage showcases party
policy to a greater extent than at any time outside
of a general election. The coverage of Ed Miliband’s
Tuesday conference speech dominated the front page
of most national newspapers the next day.
2 Conferences have been reinvigorated since the
formation of the coalition. The Conservative and
Lib Dem conferences this year were energised by
debates about the future of the government with
Vince Cable’s speech making headlines for his attack
Online Editor
Rowena Hammal
DERVISH15/FOTOLIA
The politics
of flooding
he post-Christmas floods have shown that natural
disasters have a range of political implications.
The sight of dozens of high-profile politicians
in wellies visiting villages across Somerset and the
Thames Valley was the first sign that the storms had a
political dimension.
October 2013
December 2013
YOUR FREE POLITICS REVIEW UPDATE
T
review
review
March 2014
YOUR FREE POLITICS REVIEW UPDATE
Assistant Editor
Kay Moxon
on the Tories. Policy tensions were exposed again
after debates on the mansion tax, Trident and the
austerity programme. Labour’s plans for a cap on
energy prices and talk of an electoral strategy based
on the ‘conservatory test’ gave new momentum to
Ed Miliband’s leadership. Furthermore, the Lib
Dem conference still officially makes party policy,
so its debates and votes really matter. More broadly,
outside the main conference hall fringe meetings can
still highlight major policy divisions and showcase
new policy ideas.
3 In an age of multi-party politics, the value of
party conferences for minor parties is particularly
important. In addition to giving them a public
platform, conferences can increase the momentum
enjoyed by minor parties. In spite of the furore
surrounding UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom’s comments,
UKIP’s conference in London reinforced the belief
that it is now a big threat to all three major parties.
Conferences can also provide minor parties with
much needed funds to take them into the following
year.
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