CCHQ and the party itself should be moving CLOSER to the people, not further away.

They have the ability to do so.

It is going to take time for people to realise that we are going through an enormous change and are in a new age. Sorry I know that may make me sound like a crazed hippy but the Aquarian Age that the 60s was all about? It's here. It's called the Digital Age. The Digital Age is about information. We have it. In a way we never have before. We demand truth. Hello Transparency. Hello direct democracy.

Those who cling to the old ways will make themselves ultimately redundant because the people will move away from them. Exercises in direct democracy highlight the division between people and 'the establishment'. That's why UKIP became the third biggest political party in the country - with 1 mp. It's also why parliament are tearing themselves to pieces over a people's referendum.

When I say we are going through change I mean BIG change.
1. Divine rule.
2. Parliament.
3. Direct democracy.

Much like the monarchy if political parties do not move with the times, they make themselves redundant.

Boris Johnson is an opportunist. If people stopped reading the media projections and opinions, they might actually realise that a lot of the angst with Brexit is exactly that - media driven. Don't talk to me about the Daily Wail! These papers serve their own interests first.

Sorry. I would just like to add that my group on Facebook has nearly 11,000 members and has voters, councillors, candidates, campaign managers, agents, parliamentarians, mps and other staff in it lol. Come and join us. The water's warm ;)

Interesting article. From my experiences of being an online activist (I'm 58 by the way) and running Conservative groups on Facebook, there would seem to be a steady stream of young adults not only joining and networking with other groups but also becoming unafraid to state their political opinions - which is not easy when you consider how heavily infiltrated our education system is by leftwing ideology. People of my age are not doddery old farts who have difficulty pressing the right buttons. We are more than capable of spreading the word and converting people of all ages to the Conservative Party. We can also make interesting posts, memes and films.

For a long time the party and CCHQ itself have been very wary of social media. Often it is discounted as a place for trolls and bad behaviour. However, that is old-fashioned and not relevant to the state of social media activism now. We have all learnt how to spot fake news and most of us know how to deal with trolls. To discount such an enormous forum for communication because of some bad eggs is madness. I think that opinion against social media is finally changing; the presentation of posts on official Conservative pages and groups, public personas and CCHQ's site itself has improved enormously.

Personally, I have felt extremely disillusioned with the media for a while now. Even the broadsheets have turned tabloid in their fight to keep up their circulation figures and it would be good I think for ALL of us to remember that in general? We're played by the media. To get information that is reliable and at source is essential in today's digital world. It is our right to have it.

The media as we have known it, that rather intimate and intimidating relationship between press and parliament? We don't need it. Pretty much every day I post government announcements direct to the UK Conservatives Online page. They are factual. They cannot be argued with. Believe it or not, a lot of them aren't to do with the EU and Brexit! They list out all the things this government has been doing and they are put into albums in chronological order so that policies can be tracked.

The Conservative Party does not lower itself to the gutter press and dramatic sensationalism that the leftwing lap up. We have always been a steadying and rather adult hand. Our social media political communication needs to reflect that. Use technology to put out fact. Ignore tabloids. Go to the source. And network it.

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My education started with being in a Roman Catholic Convent. I was the only unbaptised protestant in the school. Difference of religion made no difference to the expected exam results. The school had to start shutting down when I was 14. I went from there to a comprehensive and my exam expectations went through the floor. I ended up arguing with my English teacher about taking a higher level in the exam. I won the argument and I proved I was right. I found the comprehensive system awful.

My children went to a secondary modern, supposedly one of the best in the country. Neither benefitted from their education the way they should have done either.

If I had my way, I would do away with the whole lot and start again. I would use people's primary learning systems to discern what class they should be in for each year. If the education system trialled this, they would find that EVERY student would get top exam results. We have a long way to go on an effective catch-all curriculum - but more importantly, we also have a long way to go on the manner in which we teach it.

I think the only way for the NHS to continue to run effectively in the future is for people themselves to place a value on their own health and be more pro-active with problems. The NHS does much too much reactive firefighting.

The wastage of public money needs to stop. The NHS apparently have a £30bn funding shortfall, reduced to £22bn after the Government's subsidy. The NHS spends £53bn on negligence claims alone.

Finally, 'centralising' people's health has been an expensive venture; the general hospitals have become a catch-all for everyone and they are under strain. Bring back cottage hospitals. They were lovely. Human. Local. Comfortable. Convenient. Smaller outlets should have GP surgeries in them, be able to carry out minor injuries treatment, repeat prescriptions and long term treatments. Leave the general hospitals to carry out major surgery, medical research and A&E.

Apprenticeships are a big success story for our Government - as is Innovate.

The message is simple. We want to give everyone the opportunity to not only survive but to thrive and the only way to do that is to give them the chance to be employed.

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Appalling :(