Conservative Future “Social” Action
Via the excellent, amusing, and ever-entertaining Tory Bear, I’ve come across what CF seems to regard as social action:
As part of the National Social Action day in Richmond, kindly being hosted by the Richmond Borough Conservatives, one of the many projects you can visit on the 20th is the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust in Barnes. On arrival you will be treated to a free guided tour of the centre, including a talk about the work and wildlife within the area, and then taken to an area of marshland where we will be helping to carry out essential conservation work to protect the land and the birds and wildlife which inhabit the area.
So if you fancy meeting some endangered ducks and getting to grips with some conservation work at the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust in Barnes - you know where we are.
Yes, this really is social action. Not.
If Conservative Future wishes to do social action, it should actually do social action, not a bit of stuff to ‘help the environment’. Social action doesn’t have to be hard or individual. There are more than enough charities and other organisations out there that do social action and just need more volunteers to help them.
CF should set up relationships with charities which provide these sort of services to those who need them - both national and local. And Conservatives of all ages should make an effort to get involved as well, wherever and whenever they can.
If we don’t, how can we possibly make any claims to be the party of society? We should do, not just say.
[FYI: At the time this post is published, I will be out doing my bit for society, as a Scout Leader.]
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