Summer outings 6 August, 2007

As you may have noticed from the amount I have been blogging I have been getting around a bit this summer. Yesterday we went to Worcester, and you will be amazed how much worse the floods and their impact are from what we saw on TV and in the papers.

In some places they where 15-20 feel above the river Severn. With the cricket ground and the race course ruined and many businesses greatly affected, it is an economic as well as an environmental disaster, forget the human misery.

What was noticeable politically is as in Lancaster another ultra marginal that I visited last Sunday, how much better the Conservatives are organised on the ground than a few years ago.

Young fresh activist, better trained and more professional, it won’t carry us all the way but it will make the difference when it comes to the crunch its given us a headwind. For me this has been the great improvement under Cameron than under the other four leaders I served, a bottoms up approach.