Why should people get involved with CF?

It’s good fun! As unoriginal as it sounds – it is! I have been involved for 6 years and have had some really unique and educational experiences, from the offices of Westminster to the multitude of parties up and down the country! CF has taken me from the northern border of the country down to the point of Penzance in Cornwall, and I can safely say that I have learnt much along the way.

If an experience shared is an experience gained, and if you’ll excuse the paraphrase, I have shed enough blood, sweat and tears, to know most of our team more than well and form friendships and bonds which I’m sure will last a lifetime.

What one thing in the last 12 years of Labour government would you change?

Prevent, the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown from looting the national pension scheme reserves. This would have maintained our pension system, which at the time was the envy of the world, and prevent the investment flight into property buying and hedge funds. This would have meant that there would have been less of a spiral in the property market, less unsustainable mortgage demand, and generally a more sustainable investment strategy in the UK. Speculatively this would have put us in a much stronger position on the world stage now most of the G8 have entered recession. It is a small thing, but one of many systematic mistakes which our current Prime Minister will have to answer to history.