Hugh Sandeman
Conservative Councillor for Bell Hill ward, Petersfield

This years CF Christmas drinks party was at the Sterling bar located at the foot of the Gherkin in London. The venue was packed with Conservative Future members and as ever it offered a great platform to mingle and network with others from across the country.

According to the 'Spy' column in Friday's Daily Telegraph one of the guests fell asleep in a toilet cubicle and had to escape via a fire door at 3 am in the morning. And before you ask, it wasn't me - the drinks and bar snacks were pretty pricey and there weren't any free glasses of fizz to kick the evening off so it was a struggle to get too merry!

I am unlikely to write much here before the New Year so I hope everybody has a good Christmas. Hopefully 2007 will see this Blog re-open to comments from the readership, that reminds me I better buy my webmaster a Christmas drink in able to get a few of the bugs from the change of skin ironed-out asap.