Props to Stephen George.

Folks, you saw it here first. Ed Hallam, the newly re-elected CWLCF Chairman has had yet another drastic image makeover, some have said under the powerful influence of one Lucy Roblin, chief image advisor to Hallam.

UPDATED: Sources have indicated that Lucy Roblin may not be the Chief Image Advisor after all. That title for the moment goes to (and here comes a whole host of new Hallam rumours: one Arsheen Rajpar of BUCF fame. Keep 'em peeled, people!)

Is he cooking something up for which he needs to look THIS DAMN SPIFFY?

Watch this space for Hallam's next move!

As Tory Bear has reported already on this, KRO will keep it brief.

Don't Panic Media, whoever they are- have a shoddy excuse for journalism in this video about the "New Young Conservatives". The questions must be asked;

- Why were these hacks allowed to roam free with the camera and microphone at social events?
- Why do we tolerate some of the silly things being said by CF members?

Nevertheless, it gives us a good introspective insight into how CF members act and in a few cases, why they think of themselves and 'Young Conservatives'. Things like this can do a great deal of damage to both CF and to the party. KeepRightOnline believes in the right to free speech and free media, but the point is the second event shown in the video was inevitably supposed to be a 'lash up'- having 'reporters' there (for lack of a more derogatory term) is not wise.

KeepRightOnline is proud to say that although they interviewed our editor extensively- he obviously didn't give anything juicy away enough to be featured. No news is good news, eh?

This week as many of you may already know, Former Birmingham University Conservative Future President Dan O Doherty was expelled from the Conservative Party for allegedly wearing a Hitler moustache to a fancy dress party- and then posting a picture of said incident on Facebook. Right, so that's the gist of what's happened- but let's take a moment to analyse the circumstances surrounding this unfortunate incident.

Comments on the article posted on Conservative Home yesterday decried the CF 'Thought Police' while Party Officials are said to have contacted Mr. Doherty to criticize his actions and expel him from the party. That won't be the end of Dan, however. We all know Matt Lewis, of Maddygate fame is said to be active once again in the Conservative Party- for shame I say, but not for the shame of the action, more the shame of the lack of judgement of the individual.

Perhaps one might have felt that no longer being in an executive position within BUCF, he could get away with doing these things? Perhaps it was an alcohol-fuelled student error, which is not a strange thing to happen in an organisation with an average age of 18. True or false, when you're in these societies, in these positions and representing and national political party (on any scale) you need to watch it. WATCH IT. Let it be a message to the lot of us.

Quoted as saying, "I don't hate everyone, I just hate women" and known for once defending Enoch Powell's, "Rivers of Blood," speech and then later seeming to backtrack on his endorsement, Mr. Doherty is not a malicious or racist individual, but one perhaps lacking the media savvy and what one might call Diplomacy 2.0 skills.

So once again, Conservative Future is learning lessons- as if the organisation wasn't without it's problems before. KeepRightOnline suggests that right now is the time for strong leadership for CF, and for decisive action to be taken in asking the members if they really have what it takes to represent the Conservative Party proper (this is no reflection on Mr. Doherty). Perhaps some are looking for a title, some are looking for networking or drinking buddies, most of us however, are in it for the good. The good of the party, good of our communities and the good of the country.

Let's KeepRight, people.

Update 26/05/09: Daniel O'Doherty has since commented that the statements made on his Facebook profile, specifically those regarding the hatred of women were in fact satirical and taken from a television show, whilst other quotes in the same vein were friend's quotes, listed in a tongue-in-cheek manner. This blog has, since the original story broke- maintained confidence in Mr. O'Doherty.

Here's a new feature we're trying out boys and girls. Every Friday we'll attempt to bring you an interesting piece of campaigning material from across the board. That's right- we're acheiving cross party support... maybe. It's Friday Propaganda!

Today we've chosen to display a wonderful Conservative Future concoction, depicting the Labour government as a enslaving leviathan, hell bent on keeping Britiain under the thumb. The image does well to illustrate that this government has been perpetuating the same insult to liberty and personal responsibility for 12 years.

Enjoy.

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KeepRightOnline congratulates new Birmingham University Conservative Future President Sahar Rezazadeh, and her incoming committee on their election victory last night. The motions were passed unanimously, with excellent speeches from all candidates, and a moving resignation speech from outgoing President Dan O'Doherty.

Full results to come.

The Young Conservative is reporting a new campaign by Conservative Future today, urging members to print and post letters to the Prime Minister regarding the upcoming long awaited general election.
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"CF is starting this campaign as it is their generation that is going to be saddled with the debt of this Government. The Government got us into this debt and no one believes it will be able to get us out of it."

While we here at Keep Right Online aren't quite sure of how much of an impact posting letters to Downing Street will have (especially coming from Tories), it's certainly a good thing to see CF leading on this.

Right you are CF... right you are!