Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones Visits Bath

Last night, Bath University Conservative Future hosted Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Chippenham, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones as a society speaker. Around fifteen students and a local councillor attended the event – which was a welcome improvement on the last event!

Wilfred spoke at length about his background as the son of Jamaican immigrants and his experiences of growing up in inner-city Birmingham from which he eventually found his way into television and later became a successful farmer. The talk drew upon many various aspects of his life experiences and how he believed that conviction politics could reinvigorate Britain.

After this well-received speech, Mr Emmanuel-Jones took questions from the floor on various subjects, ranging from breeds of his Devon cattle to the creation of a black middle-class and the candidate’s A-list. However, the final and most contentious subject of the night unleashing over fifteen minutes of furious debate was the future direction of the National Health Service (provoked by my question, sadly.) Wilfred set about arguing that those who are directly responsible for their ill-heath such as contracting cancer through excessive smoking, should be personally accountable for their own actions and pay for treatment of those consequences rather than hoping that society should automatically foot the bill. Most people in the room did seem to agree – although two particular individuals didn’t quite seem capable of grasping that simple notion…

We at Bath Conservative Future wish Wilfred the best of luck at the next election and we hope to see Chippenham elect him as their Member of Parliament.