The Alliance of Conservative Voters (UK) Forum

My opinion on the ECHR is simple really. The majority of the public do not have confidence that it has a positive effect on British society.
So I am in favour of the government leaving the ECHR.
Or as an alternative, the government could simply ignore it when it chooses, as many other states do.

Whilst fully aware that research IS conducted into current Sentencing Guidelines; it very much appears to have become “the norm” that horrific/barbaric crimes -  particularly against innocent women and children - have now been “dumbed down” in such a way that we’re not supposed to notice how little time perps actually spend “paying” for what they’ve done! When a ‘man’ can face five years in prison for beating his partner so badly that he BROKE HER BACK BUT “with mitigation” will only serve one year and three months - irrelevant of previous convictions; her continued I’ll health and little/no compensation - what chance is there that a) it will ever act as a deterrent to others or that b) anyone will feel that ‘crime doesn’t pay!’
It’s all a very unfunny joke and needs urgent review!

WELCOME TO THE ALLIANCE OF CONSERVATIVE VOTERS (UK) FORUM.

Over the past few decades, the general membership of the Conservative Party and the local associations have gradually lost their power to the Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), the party's board and the 1922 Committee of backbenchers. There are now moves afoot to make all decisions – especially as to who leads or does not lead the party – to be the sole decision of MPs rather the members.

The party of capitalism and entrepreneurism in the UK is effectively operating as a Marxist state. It was they who engineered the removal of Boris Johnson and had they been allowed their way, we, the members, would not have had even the final choice of our leader.

The only way to reverse this process and return power to the members through their local associations is by rewriting the party constitution and re-organising the board.

Many pro-Conservative organisations would like to see this changed, but at the moment, they are separate voices crying in the wind.

The Alliance of Conservative Voters (UK) Forum aims to provide a common notice board where individual Conservative voters, party members, groups of all sizes and commentators can express their concerns and ally themselves to force change upon the government by various means.

To this end, the forum is not a club, association, organisation or political party. You cannot join ACVF, and you cannot register with ACVF beyond your username. For good measure, ACVF is not managed, sponsored, endorsed or even approved by the Conservative Party. 

From the forum, the smaller groups and commentators can get a representative sample of what the Conservative voting public wants from their elected government. Starting with a return to democracy so that a small number of MPs are not deciding who will represent you.

That is not, however, the end purpose of the forum. We, the public, are now more politically aware than ever and have opinions on many aspects of government. We are no longer prepared to vote every five years or so and let the MPs get on with it. We want them to be more accountable to us, the people they represent.

Of course, the government isn’t going to listen to what we want just because we have a forum. They will need to be persuaded.

We can do this in many ways. The first is by petition. More than 180,000 members of the party would be eligible to vote in a petition. It needs only 10,000 signatures for the party to be forced to consider a petition. That’s now, but that could change if the 1922 gets its way.

Even then, they will prevaricate and may even choose to ignore us. But could they ignore us if 50,000 signed a petition or – in the extreme – resigned from the party? The latter would not only mean a loss of £1.25 million in revenue, but the loss of 50,000 willing campaigners to deliver leaflets and make phone calls for the party.

All of this is possible, and it will be a peaceful revolution in the best Tory traditions, but it will be a revolution. And when we have won that first victory, we will turn our attention to the other pressing matters of the day.

But for all this to happen, we need numbers. We need you and me to use the forum to express our opinions, without the need for the divisive rhetoric of the left, but in strong terms and make it happen. If we do not, the Conservatives will lose the next general election, and none of us want that.