CF Diary: Why I am standing for Chairman.

See CF Diary next week when I will be writing a more detailed piece on the work I have been doing this year

WELCOME - To visitors from Conservative Home. Have a flick through the busiest campaign website - updated daily.

Here you will find the most detailed manifesto for how we can set about transforming CF for the better. Keep checking back for campaign updates and all the news from the election trail.

On nearly all the issues I agree with the NME and Chairmen candidates about what should be done - in fact you can probably flick through the manifestoes of this year and previous years and agree yourself. However, the barrier to preventing a permanent improvement in CF's fortunes has been how we are run.

I am pledging to begin in these next nine months a process of decentralisation. Setting the NME up as a service provider that facilitates the strengthening of CF at its lowest levels.

Beginning with CF at a regional level for most of the country (with the potential to do the same at Area then branch level in future years), we will embed the principle of self-reliance and of the centre regarding its role only in the context of how it helps the grassroots.

This is the radical change I am talking about - if you believe, as I do that, this change is the only way to deliver a sustainable revival in CF then send me an email your support is welcome.

And to those of you already snapped up by the other candidates - I realise that I came into this campaign late, and some of you have been signed up for perhaps four months with the other candidates, but, if you want to break the cycle of low expectations, perhaps the real change you can make is in your support.