Thumbs up for the Rock and a look to the Future...

Ok time for the first preliminary survey result... Will be saving the NME index until the poll closes but lets have a sneaky peak at some of the Chairman stats.

To the left are the answers to "Please rate Michael Rock's performance as Chairman so far"

Given that 50.7% of the respondents so far voted for the Rock the top heavy results are to be expected. 20.3% of the 70 respondents so far give him a five out of ten. As many people rate the Rock a Hero as they do a Zero.. but most CFers seem to rate him pretty highly on the scale. 71.9% voted between 5 to 10 out of ten - sound.

Next we have a rather interesting split in the NME with two very clear front runners emerging for "Which of the NME do you reckon has the best chance of becoming Chairman?" ---------->

Patrick Sullivan is the front runner but Christian May is hot on his tail. The divisive ABB has clearly got some core support out there but given some of the comments left on the survey she needs to sort out her bossy demeanor before she will start to win over the mass vote.

Tory Bear put his journalist cap on and got in touch with the leaders of this poll-

The charming and friendly Christian "hot news, firm views" May grumpily said:

"The tory bear blog clearly amuses a few CF members, and having been shown these survey results I can now count myself amongst them."

Well Christian your blog certainly provided many an hour of

amusement

for TB.

Christian also refused to comment on the potential conflict of interest that would arise if he did stand for Chairman and continue his new job as Shane Greer 2 at YBF.

Mr Sullivan was much more helpful:

“After you published that picture of me with my hair alight, I'm not exactly sure why I am talking to you my furry friend but thanks for getting in touch –

As for your poll that has me ahead, well firstly I would like to say that I am flattered that there are those out there who think I’d make a good CF Chairman. However, I have so much on at the moment that the next round of CF elections seems a million years away. My main priority at the moment is getting on with doing my job. What I will say is that I am in the process of working on exciting new plans for electing Conservatives in our Students’ Unions and within the NUS, which should be great fun! "

TB likes the sound of this NUS stuff - always a fan of giving the left a good kicking, tough crowd though. A rather enigmatic response from Mr Sullivan especially given the rumour that he has his eye on the top of another organisation, much bigger than CF...

And other runners? News reaches me that a Craig Cox comeback is in the early stages of development and according one respondent Wed, 7/2/08 3:44 PM:

"Neil Martin is running next year - worse kept secret."

TB also had an rather amusing chat with Matt Richardson today about the prospect of another slate "Forward Together Again - Because CF deserves a second chance." Given that 66.2% of those polled responded saying they wouldn't vote for Matt again he better get back on the CF scene pretty pronto if it's going to be second time lucky...

Well seeing as the elections aren't until next April - possibly even next September it's going to be a long old race... You know where you will get the news first though. Happy days.