Conservative Clubs
Over to Stradey Park — the hotel not the rugby ground — for the Clubs’ Conference.
The Conservative Clubs do fantastic work for the party and the interaction between the clubs and the party has improved massively. I certainly use the clubs in many towns for my constituency surgeries. As well as my own session here I am also doing Cheryl’s as she is recuperating from her operation. She tells me her surgeon is called Gibbons– scary!
At the dinner I am sitting next to the redoubtable, Beata Brookes, who is on fine form. She was Chairwoman of the party in the dark days ten years ago when the party was in freefall and she managed to keep the show on the road and always exuded incredible confidence and optimism.
While here I take another look at the Stradey Park ground which is the subject of a called in planning application. The Scarlets are, of course, an institution in Llanelli and their assured future is important but the planning application for houses on the Stradey ground has been called in by the minister. The uncertainty is undesirable but the process must be allowed to take its course.
