Who do you want to be our next Prime Minister ?

On Tuesday, David Cameron came to Wolverhampton.

Please click on this link :

 http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/02/Cameron_Direct_in_Wolverhampton.aspx

 

The ability to think on your feet, be natural and sincere is essential to any politician.  It’s going to be interesting to see how Gordon Brown does spontaneity and working without a script during the next general election campaign.

Paul

Those halcyon student days!

Last weekend I visited my old University of Warwick. Quite an odd experience being on the platform rather than in the audience as I used to be.  The talk was part of the one World week and the topic for discussion was, do we live in a Disunited Kingdom? Speakers included Councilor Sood, the Lord Mayor of Leicester,  Peter Tatchell the Australian-born English human rights activist, who gained international celebrity for his attempted citizen’s arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001 and Tariq Modood MBE  who is professor of sociology, politics and public policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

I’m not going to lie – I was incredibly nervous, but I really enjoyed the experience. I spoke personally about how I had seen the UK move in a positive direction compared to when I had been a fresher and sat in the audience.  Maybe not everybody agreed with me but if you make it personal and passionate then at least people accept the sincerity of your views and appreciate your perspective.

As I’ve always said, personal politics often reflects an individual story. Without this you can’t speak on any platform that is genuine.

Paul