There was a record turnout at last week’s AGM of the East Worthing & Shoreham Conservative Association held at Lancing Parish Hall. Worthing Councillor Bryan Turner was elected Chairman in a contested election taking over from Julie Searle who completed her 3 year term. Bryan thanked Julie for her hard work in steering the party over the last 3 years which had also seen a record increase in membership. In the last 6 months alone 150 new members had been recruited across the whole constituency. He said:
‘The East Worthing & Shoreham Conservative Association is in good shape and ready to take on all comers at the forthcoming election. It is essential that we get Tim Loughton re-elected to be part of a majority Conservative Government after May 7th and our members will also again be helping to return a Conservative MP representing the neighbouring Hove constituency. It is great to have so many new members to help in that fight as this will be one of the most important and unpredictable elections we have had in a generation and we can take nothing for granted. The British people face a clear choice between sticking to our long term economic plan which has created more jobs in the UK than the whole of the EU put together or a return to the economic chaos that we inherited from Labour who crashed the economy.’
The Loughton Cup for the best Conservative branch in the constituency was awarded to Shoreham Marine branch whose Chairman Pauline Karadzas reported on recruiting more than 40 new members in the last year. The Reg Green Cup for the member who had made the greatest individual contribution to the Association was awarded to Councillor Louise Murphy, elected to Worthing Borough Council to represent Offington Ward last May (pictured here with former councillor Reg Green’s widow Doreen Green and Tim Loughton.)