“The Conservatives are set to sever links with every Tory university group in the country in a bid to detoxify their brand.
A confidential internal Tory report seen by HuffPost UK calls for “risky student politics” to be moved completely out the party structures.
The recommendation comes after a series of embarrassing incidents involving student groups, including a member of the Cambridge University Conservative Association burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person and Tories at St Andrews setting fire to an effigy of Barack Obama.”…
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-university-conservative-young_uk_59d2968de4b0f96298893b80
East Devon Watch 
LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL.
This just goes to show just how far removed from reality they are.
The Cambridge University Conservative Association may have its links formally severed, and the Conservative Party may be able to put their hands up in horror and say “nothing to do with us”.
But they will still be called the Cambridge University Conservative Association and the rest of us will still know that they are the sons and daughters of the richest 10% of the country who have been brought up in a cosy, safe, non-deprived, rich childhood, probably in a private school, who use their parents (who are leading lights in their own local Conservative Association) as role models and who get their inspiration from their idols in the Conservative Party who are continually nasty to the least fortunate in our society (like the homeless, and those like Barack Obama who try to ensure that everyone gets health care rather than trashing the NHS – I am assuming that the Barack Obama effigy burning was not race related, though it could have been I suppose).
They could also be taking their inspiration from the university antics of people like David Cameron, Boris Johnson and George Osborne who were all members of the infamous Oxford University Bullingdon Club (aka Riot Club) (which ironically has no formal ties with Oxford University).
Cutting ties is, of course, the perfect way to influence students from behaving like this – because, of course, students are always embarrassed by such chiding (rather than seeing it as a scar of honour) and are immediately obedient to authority.
Interestingly, the Conservative Party do not see it as a duty to spend time and effort persuading them that such behaviours are morally repugnant (perhaps because secretly they believe in such behaviours – it is just the bad publicity that they don’t want) and that if the students want to help the Conservative Party their efforts would be better spent in persuading other students to the cause (assuming that the other students can be persuaded to agree with Conservative Party policies which will disadvantage them for the rest of their lives). I guess that they must see students as a lost cause – presumably because they know that most students are sufficiently intelligent to see what the impact of Conservative policies will be, and perhaps because students have not yet become numb to the suffering of those less fortunate as a result of being so helpless to influence it under the Conservative definition of democracy).
(See also “Activate”, another unsuccessful attempt to resurrect the Young Conservatives.)
IN SIMPLE TERMS, this “CUTTING OF TIES” approach is a perfect example of what is wrong with the Conservative Party – policies that are not persuasive (because they are for the few not the many), a lack of moral values that will inspire younger voters, and an unwillingness to recognise these failings, an unwillingness to meet them head on, instead blaming others and distancing themselves.
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