Alex Honey (non-university member) is an undergraduate in his first year at Exeter University, and Chairman of the Exeter University Conservative Association.

J.R.R Tolkein once commented of hobbits that ‘’a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt’’. Well in this sense I must say I have an affinity with the hobbits of Middle Earth. As I drive around Oxfordshire playing the works of Pachelbel, Dvorak and Vivaldi a tear comes to my eye. Not because of the stunning beauty of the countryside, nor because I have accidentally checked my bank balance, but because this serenity is under grave peril. 

All views expressed are Alex’s own, and not necessarily reflective of the views of the association nor its office holders.