A lucky escape for the Welsh Conservatives
Posted on November 11, 2010You may remember my post on that lovely specimen, Zahid Raja, the Conservative Future candidate in Wales who was vitriolically opposing spending cuts that might affect him.
Happily, he was defeated by Grant Tucker, the entirely more libertarian candidate. That was a lucky escape from political embarrassment – and it now turns out it was doubly lucky. Raja has – not unsurprisingly for an anti-cuts NUS officer – now left the Conservative Party entirely:
The Conservative Party needs principled people who will stand staunchly in support of the case to reduce public spending wherever necessary – and no party needs the kind of fairweather friends who storm off in a huff as soon as they lose a student election. Happily Wales has elected the former, and avoided a classic example of the latter.
As Margaret Thatcher would say, “Rejoice at that news!”
Tags: Conservative Future, Conservatives, Gossip, Grant Tucker, public spending, Spending cuts, Wales, Zahid Raja
As a former pro-cuts NUS NEC officer, I can confirm he wouldn’t have lasted at one of our red-meat conference Tory meetings. Good riddance. We have enough Milquetoa
23.11.2010 09:08
Have you heard why he left? Read it on http://thestudentjournals.co.uk in an exclusive interview
27.11.2010 20:44
He joined Labour straight after. Unsurprisingly, for similar reasons, he didn’t last long with us either to everyone’s relief. I heard he’s now kicking around with the Plaid nationalists!
25.11.2011 00:49