Conservative
Party – Dirty Tricks or Cock-Up Update 2
On
27th February I submitted a motion to the Chairman of “No Confidence
in Dominic Grieve MP” for the Annual General Meeting of Beaconsfield Constituency
Conservative Association.
On 2nd March
I raised with the Agent of the Association that I had received no notification
of the renewal of my membership subscription from CCHQ.
On 4th March I was told the motion was
rejected because my membership of the Party had lapsed. On being told this, that day, I and my wife
Caroline went to the BCCA office and each of us gave a cheque for £25 in
payment of our subscriptions. I had not
received any Notification of Renewal, or Reminder, from the BCCA office, but I
had been told in April 2018 that in future CCHQ would be contacting me
regarding renewal.
Today
13th March 2019 I received a letter from Natalie Crosby-Jones, Head
of Membership at CCHQ. Her letter was dated March 2019. She writes:
Dear
Mr Strafford,
Thank
you for the support you’ve provided to the Conservatives in the past year. As a Member,
you are a crucial part of our Party, and we are grateful for all the work that
you’ve done for us.
She goes on to say that my membership is now overdue
and would I renew it today. Having
received the letter I checked my Bank statements to see whether my cheque for
£25 had been banked. It had not. It is ironic that when I became Chairman of
BCCA, one of the first things I had to do was to dismiss the then Agent for
incompetence. Top of the list of incompetence was not banking cheques
expeditiously. How standards fall!
If, as per Ms Natalie Crosby-Jones I am still a
Member, then why was my motion rejected and who took that decision?
The question now is: Do I cancel my cheque to BCCA
and issue a new cheque to CCHQ as requested, or do I wait and see what
happens? You tell me! I have never known such a shambolic state of
affairs, or could it be “Dirty Tricks” to stop the motion going on the Agenda?
There now seems to be a cancer at the heart of our Party. Time for a re-birth of the Real Conservative Party.
ReplyDeleteDirty tricks all round. Disgraceful.
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