During the election campaign, I – and other local candidates – were frustrated at the refusal of the front runner to say whether he would prefer to work with Labour or the Conservatives, given that his party was unlikely to win an overall majority at Westminster on its own.

I’m glad that he and his fellow Lib Dems ended up working with us, especially given that we did better than Labour in the election.

1. I don’t have any employees.

2. I don’t recall ever labelling this entry ‘Manifesto’ as I stood on a party-wide manifesto. I could be mistaken but I don’t think it’s terribly important anyway as websites are living things which tend to change and evolve (even though this one is quite static for now).

3. I don’t delete posts. I would if they were deeply offensive and I reserve the right to do so, as most websites do, but I find it’s not really necessary.

Posts left by an inside associate directing me to an ad hoc construction were also left here.

Since then, you’ve edited the title of this page from “Manifesto” into a “Why I’m a Conservative” and have also deleted the posts leading to the aforementioned ad hoc external links.

I am merely commenting on the distasteful nature of your conduct concerning website management and your attempts to selectively delete comments that reflect you and your employees in bad light.

Hence they are henchmen and you are a charlatan.

Regards,

Buyun Zhao,
Christ’s College

I might have removed something offensive or libellous, though I don’t immediately recall doing so. You’ll find people who disagree with me on here and I would not remove a post just because someone has a different point of view. I note your original post from April 2010 is still available for all to see.

Any reordering of the website, which did not include deleting lots of stuff, occurred over a year ago (though of course I reserve the right to change the website in future). As far as I can recall, the name of this section has not changed, though the route to the page was, I think, altered once after it was first established. Perhaps you’re muddling my site up with someone else’s?

If you look around the site, you will see it was primarily set up for the 2010 general election. As I am now a civil servant (a special adviser), it would be inappropriate to keep the site running at full pelt. So if you want to contribute to debates about the future of Conservatism you may be better off looking at ConservativeHome (www.conservativehome.org), though I also recommend Cambridge Conservatives’ website.

Alternatively, if you want to know what I am up to, do follow me on twitter – @nickhillman.

As an alumnus, may I wish you all the best for the rest of your studies at Christ’s.

Not only have you renamed this page to “Why I’m a Conservative”, you’ve also removed the subsequent posts left here by your henchmen.

Such a move is cowardly but I suppose it is in apposite alignment with your vacuous manifesto.

Clean up your mess and grow up.

Regards,

Buyun Zhao,
Christ’s College