Who we are

The City of Cambridge Conservative Association brings together Conservative supporters for campaigning and social events throughout the year.

Joining the Association is a direct way to break Labour’s lock on national government, press for common sense on the City Council and help get an effective MP for us in the City - a Conservative MP.

Our social events range from informal pub gatherings to event with guest speakers. 

We use money raised locally to fight City Council elections, County Council elections and the General Election.

This is the City of the three-way fight. The tide is turning after periods of first Labour and then Liberal Democrat dominance. One in four Cambridge City votes are now cast for Conservative candidates. 

As the Labour vote collapses and the Liberal Democrats are clearly not an effective Goverment voice for us in the City, we have overtaken Labour to be the main challengers to the sitting Liberal Democrats. 

We need help to turn these gains into success at the next General Election. 

If there is any way you can assist in getting Labour out of government, please contact us. 

We are always looking for help on the ground, with: - 

• Leaflet production and delivery
• Canvassing throughout the year
• Election Day help – perhaps with telling at the polling stations
• Help with information – keeping in touch with local views and issues of concern, and
• Finding the money to make election campaigns possible. 

Unlike the sitting Liberal Democrat MP, we do not receive a government ‘communications’ allowance of over £10,000 a year to promote our future parliamentary candidate. We must turn to private funds to redress the state-funded bias towards sitting MPs introduced by Labour.

The Next General Election

When Gordon Brown calls the General Election, the choice for the country is whether to have a Conservative or Labour government. For years the Liberal Democrats told voters that if they were in a position to influence, hold the balance of power, they would use it to good effect. When they had the chance to do so in parliamentary sessions such as by voting along with their manifesto commitment for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the sitting Lib Dem MP for Cambridge abstained.  Ticking the ‘don’t know’ box does not help Cambridge or the country. 

What we believe in

Conservatives share the ambitions and aspirations of Cambridge people. We want a City where services – health, social services and education – are run in the interests of local people. We want a City where people are safe on the streets and well housed. We want to conserve the environment, providing a place where families and individuals feel secure and proud of their city.

We believe and campaign for: -

• Better planning to be at the heart of our vision for the City. The characteristics that make Cambridge an economic, academic and cultural success must be promoted. Unsustainable schemes like the current Eastern Development will be opposed; and building that is out of character, for example by demanding more than five storeys, will be opposed.
• Better transport to enable the City’s economy to prosper. This means working with the County Council for improvements. However, we oppose congestion charging as being unfair, expensive and intrusive.
• Improved housing in the City, but not in ways that are divisive or unsustainable in the long-term. We will ensure that tenants rights are respected and their responsibilities enforced. We will crack down on anti-social tenants.
• Our City to be clean. Regular collection of rubbish and the regular cleaning of streets will be the hallmarks of Conservative Council and at the heart of our City pride in where we live.
• The pressure on services – such as housing – caused by immigration from other parts of the country and abroad. We will campaign for fairer funding formulas from central government.
• Efficient services that meet the needs of local people, and we will disregard the ‘tick-in-the-box’ culture that Labour has introduced and which flourishes under the city’s Lib Dem group; we will certainly oppose programmes that would prop up the discredited plans for expensive national ID cards.