Tim Aker

NAME... Tim Aker

LOCATION... Thurrock, Essex

SELF-DESCRIPTION... Recent graduate of the University of Nottingham with a BA in History and Politics, having also served as General Secretary, then President of the Nottingham University Conservative Future branch.  Unsuccessful candidate for Education Officer at the Nottingham University Students Union, though I polled a morale boosting 899 votes.  Currently looking for work.  I like Dean Koontz novels, a nice round of golf now and then and cooking to relax. I am an Arsenal fan, and have been before the Francophone take-over and my music interests are firmly rooted in the 80s.  I have recently set up a blog: Thurrock Tory.

POLITICAL BELIEFS... Independently-minded Conservative populist.  I've tried to be a neo-con, but it just didn't work, and as such recently I've become a bit of an isolationist.  I favour an independent, sovereign Britain, a strong but minimal state and am relaxed with a moderate centre-right social policy.  I am, however, in favour greatly of education vouchers and grammar schools.  Tax cuts are also a must, combined with an industrial policy that maintains a manufacturing base as well as an economy that is free of painful restraints.  I am pro-Union, but can forsee a day when England stands alone acting as a protectorate of Northern Ireland.  I am against devolution, and would support a platform that abolished the regional parliaments, be it the english regions, scottish parliament, GLA or welsh assembly.  I also believe Stormont shouldn't be re-opened if we are to have a consistent belief in a unitary state at Westminster.

POLITICAL HEROES... Winston Churchill, for his determination and ability to see the gathering storm even though all around had written him off. Margaret Thatcher, for turning this country around, for her strong will and political conservatism. Enoch Powell, for a patriotism that forsaw what the European Union would turn into, although not in complete agreement with some of his other policies.  There will only ever be one Powellite. Patrick Buchanan, for his populism and political guts in challenging George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Comments

[Matt Robinson]

Don't know if tim will remember me from Nottingham, but i remember him and his strong thatcherite views.
stuck to your principles, whether popular or not, always liked that about you tim.

[TaxCutter]

Welcom, good to see that my alma mater, Nottingham University, is still producing good solid Thatcherites. Don't remember there being many fans of Pat Buchanan when I was there in 92 though....

[James]

Matt Robinson - from Yorkshire? I lived in Lincoln Hall 04-05 I'm still a conservative lol did u end up at Leeds uni?