The event starts at 5:45pm, and will be held at the Postgraduate Education Centre at Nottingham City Hospital. If anyone wants to come, please let us know by the end of the weekend, as tickets are limited!

By David Cameron
Last Updated: 1:16pm GMT 01/02/2008

Those who say that the modern Conservative Party is breaking with the legacy of Margaret Thatcher are wrong.

• Great Britons Awards 2007
• Have your say: How do you view Margaret Thatcher’s legacy?

Lady Thatcher was a moderniser, one of the great modernising prime ministers of our history. She refused to accept the conventional wisdom of her day. In doing so she ruffled some feathers among the old guard of her party, but she was proved right by the public in successive elections, and right by history.In the 1970s the conventional wisdom held that Britain was on a slow and irreversible decline, both economically and in terms of world prestige – and the best that politicians could do was manage that decline gracefully.

Margaret Thatcher wasn’t having any of it. She had an unabashed confidence in Britain, and she took the bold steps that were necessary to reverse our post-war decline.

She tackled inflation through getting control of the money supply, an enormously difficult task which not only makes Gordon Brown’s sole monetary decision – to hand over control over interest rates to the Bank of England – look puny in comparison; it made it possible in the first place.

She ensured that British business was manageable by restoring trade unions to the democratic control of their members, defeating the union leaders who were running firms from the shop floor. ]]> http://www.nottinghamtrentcf.co.uk/2008/02/thatcher-rescued-britains-greatness/feed 0 http://www.nottinghamtrentcf.co.uk/2008/01/welcome http://www.nottinghamtrentcf.co.uk/2008/01/welcome#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:29:32 +0000 Gavin Jackson http://www.nottinghamtrentcf.co.uk/2008/01/welcome Welcome to our new website. Nottingham Trent Conservative Future is one of the universities newly affiliated societies, and has an exciting year ahead planned. Conservative Future provides a voice to the youngest members of the Conservative Party, and provides nationwide assistance to the main body of the party.

This branch of Conservative Future is pleased to be the first centre right political party at the Nottingham Trent, as well as being the first Conservative Future branch of its kind here, and will create and maintain strong links with the Nottinghamshire Conservatives, as well as the Nottingham University Conservative Future and will be campaigning on behalf of our two Parliamentary candidates in Nottingham, Anna Soubry and Rowena Holland.

We are already looking forward to holding various campaign days across the country, as well as holding some fantastic socials which will including getting in some interesting and thoughtful speakers, guaranteed to get members discussing key issues within the political arena.

This society will be a brilliant way for anybody to get themselves involved with politics at a grassroots level, and is open to all students at the university.

So if you agree that people should be free to live their lives how they wish, without government interference and free to make their own decisions then get in touch!