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| Every Conservative, from the Shadow Cabinet right through to branch members across Britain, could take some of the following steps: | ||
| Ø | Know Conservative values, live them and articulate them to people when asked why you are a Conservative; | |
| Ø | Urge your local Association or Conservative-run council to consider taking up the idea of sponsoring volunteers to work in the developing world; | |
| Ø | Visit countries oppressed by tyrannical regimes yourself, make contact with pro-democracy activists in those countries and in exile, become involved in campaigning for human rights, justice and democracy around the world. Be willing to visit people who are suffering at the hands of tyrannical regimes, if necessary crossing borders without a visa if such a visit would be welcomed by local people; | |
| Ø | If you travel for your work anyway, try to make contact with like-minded parties abroad, and if you have skills in business, law, education, language, politics, local government, share them with like-minded parties in emerging democracies; | |
| Ø | If you use the internet, communicate with sister parties overseas; | |
| Ø | Write to Britain’s Ambassador to the UN in New York to urge wholesale reform of the UN’s practices and systems; lobby the Government and the Conservative Party to look at urgent reform of the UN; | |
| Ø | Lobby for legislation on corporate social responsibility; | |
| Ø | Lobby the Government to adopt stricter controls on the sale of arms; | |
| Ø | If you are a councillor, school governor, parent, or teacher, encourage schools to adopt some of the ideas suggested in this pamphlet, even while the Conservatives are in Opposition at a national level; | |
| Ø | Use the terminology which has been hijacked by the Left in conversation – don’t regard them with suspicion – reclaim them | |
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New Ground held its first fringe event at the October 2003 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool The event was chaired by Andrew Sealous MP and was addressed by guest speaker Michael Ancram MP. The meeting was also addressed by New Ground Authors Benedict Rogers and James Mawdsley. ·
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