Colchester Conservative Association

07/05/2026

Polls are OPEN!

Vote Conservative! ✅🇬🇧

10/04/2026

The Statement of Persons Nominated is now official.

David Linghorn-Baker, who you will know from the local post office, is seeking election to represent Prettygate. 🇬🇧🌳

David is the only candidate who is visible in Prettygate, with a direct understanding of our community and its priorities.

Meanwhile, the Reform candidate lives in Mersea, and is also already standing for Rochford! 🤯

On 7th May, vote Conservative - for your only truly local candidate, focused on serving just one community: Prettygate. 🙌

26/03/2026

CONFIRMED: New figures show Conservative-run authorities deliver lower council tax rises than any other Party.

Vote Conservative on 7 May!

30/11/2025

Thank you to everybody for joining us for a great Colchester Conservative Association Annual Dinner, with not one by two fabulous and inspirational guest speakers Shaun Bailey and Anna Firth. Huge thanks to all the team at the Blue Anchor Feering for looking after us with exceptional food and service 👍👍👍 Colchester City Conservatives

21/11/2025

📢📢 Colchester Conservatives shout for ALL scheduled local elections to go ahead in May 2026🗳🗳

Colchester City Conservatives, supported by Colchester Conservative Association are submitting a motion to Full Council on Thursday December 4th that May's scheduled local elections MUST go ahead.

This motion asks the Lib Dem and Labour Leadership of the City Council to back our written request to the Labour Secretary of State that the view from Colchester residents and us is that May 26 elections MUST all go ahead, not just in Colchester and Essex, but across the UK.

The power to postpone or force elections to go ahead is entirely the UK Government decision. Postponing democracry again would be unprecedented and has only been used at times when the whole Country faced national crisis, such as the Covid pandemic and WWII.

The meeting and vote will take place on the evening of Thursday December 4 at Colchester Town Hall. Further, information will be uploaded (hopefully 🤞🤞) shortly by the City Council to allow you all an oppurtunity see our motion and allow those of you that want to 'Have your say' on the night to attend

Let's see if the Lib Dems and Labour Councillors join us in passing this motion and ensure in May 26 we get to vote locally, countywide, in addition to the Essex Mayorality elections that are scheduled.

Bring on a 'Super Democracy Thursday' in May 26 🗳🗳

Colchester City Conservatives: all scheduled May 2026 local elections must go ahead.

Conservative Councillors on Colchester City Council will make it clear that in their view all scheduled Local Elections in May 2026 must go ahead by submitting a motion which all Councillors will be able to vote on when the Council meets on Thursday December 4th.

Cllr Paul Dundas (Tiptree), Leader of the Conservative Group, who will table the motion, said “We are submitting a clear and unambiguous statement that all elections due in May 2026 must go ahead which every Councillor present can either agree or disagree with by voting for or against. Voters are telling us they expect all the elections to go ahead as planned and it is important they know whether each political party agrees with that or not. On December 4 all Councillors will have the opportunity to put their view on the record”

“To be clear, no Council in Essex or elsewhere in the country has the power to either cancel elections or force them to go ahead. Only the Government can decide that so our motion asks the Leader of the Council, co-signed by all political parties, to inform the Secretary of State that the view in Colchester is that they should all go ahead, not just in Colchester and Essex, but across the UK"

“We understand the arguments, but it is a matter of principle. Extensions to elected terms for more than a year are virtually unprecedented outside times of national crisis. Elections must take place when they are due, and the public have the right to expect their elected representatives to firmly back that.”

Cllr Sara Naylor (Lexden and Braiswick), Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group who has seconded the motion said “It’s a fundamental principle of democracy that residents in Colchester, the surrounding villages and the County have the right to choose who represents them. The government must never misuse its power by denying our right to choose who represents us on our local councils.”

The meeting and vote will take place on the evening of Thursday December 4 at Colchester Town Hall.

13/11/2025

Spending up, borrowing up and tax going up again soon, following the highest rise in tax burden for 50years with the last Labour budget.

Our MP Pam Cox has maintained her 100% compliant party Whip voting record, rather than stand up for hard working people of Colchester.

Colchester City Conservatives Colchester Conservative Association

11/11/2025

The Labour Govt imposed 20800 new houses on Colchester by 2041 by pushing our annual housing target up by 40%. This Labour and Lib Dem controlled City Council voted last night to push ahead with an ill-thought out local plan that drops unsustainable developments like cluster bombs from the sky across swathes of greenbelt farmland with, what the chief planning officer admits, an infrastructure deficit alone standing at £811m!

Reckless allocations, without infrastructure and excessive targets going beyond actual 'housing demand' will further cripple our road network, put huge strain on our struggling health facilities, education services and sewage/water supplies.

Conservatives refuse to endorse Plans for 20,000 more houses in Colchester.

Conservative Councillors on Colchester City Council last night questioned whether the new Local Plan, which decides where over 20,000 new houses will be built in the Colchester area over the next 15 years, delivers any of the much-needed infrastructure.

The plan, which has been developed by the Lib Dem and Labour led council, reveals that the Colchester area has a shortfall of £811m of new infrastructure to cope with the new housing including transport, medical, education and other essential services.

Under questioning from Conservatives, it became evident that there was a very significant gap between what was needed and what was likely to be delivered.

Cllr Paul Dundas, Leader of the Conservative Group on the Council said “We would never say we don’t need some new housing but the Labour Government have imposed a massive increase in numbers on us at short notice which we are concerned will, frankly, bring misery to the existing residents as they are failing to provide any of the needed infrastructure evidenced by the shelving of the A12 upgrade.”

It was agreed with votes from a majority of the Lib Dems, Labour and Greens that the new plan should go out to consultation so residents can now tell the Council their views on the 20,000 new homes and where they are proposing to build them.

06/11/2025

More political showboating from our Labour MP this week - let's cancel something, then campaign for it!

Labour betrayed Essex by scrapping the desperately needed A12 widening scheme, that would have supported new jobs, business investment and support Labour's huge 21,000 housing target for Colchester! As a further consequence and huge blow to North Essex, the A120 will also never be upgraded.

Yet our Labour MP Pam Cox now wants to ensure the A12 gets the much needed investment it needs - the very same investment Labour cancelled three months ago.

The nation was promised 'change' last May, not lies, more lies and failures from Labour and it's MPs.

Colchester City Conservatives

19/10/2025

Who remembers this lie from Labour to get their greedy hands on the UK Government?

Instead, the Labour Government have been busy over the last 17 months ensuring small businesses, and particularly family run ones, face a bleaker and more challenging future!

FACT - Labour have already:
👎️ Capped Agricultural Property Relief so family owned farms face being sold instead of inherited
👎Slashed Business Property Relief from 100% to 50% impacting every family business in the UK
👎Slashed Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Relief from 75% to 40%
👎Increased Convenience store business rates by £100m in a year
👎Drawn thousands of small businesses into paying business rates with April's revaluation
👎Sealed an additional 60,000 business closures and 150,000 job losses before April 2026
👎Made 1/8 small high street business owners having to consider closure by 2027

The nation was promised 'change' last May, not lies, more lies and failures from Labour and it's MPs.

Colchester City Conservatives

15/10/2025

Four years on from the murder of Sir David Amess, we remember a kind man who dedicated his life to serving others.

Our thoughts are with his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

Political violence has no place in our society.