The REVIEW Malan sets out 'moderate' action for future.

The REVIEW | by Roger Beckend, Associate Politics Columnist
Ahead of this years party conference, Conservative Chairman Daniel François Malan is expected to make a speech of 'modernity, moderation and meritocracy'. What is already being called the Three-M speech will lay out Malan's policy on keeping the party as moderate and cable of leadership. Sources close to party leadership have told The REVIEW the address will include an increase in party democracy, with the chance of an elected chairperson, separate to the party leader; an expansion of the Conservative Policy Forum; rewriting the party code of conduct and bringing more libertarian, left-friendly members into positions of power and influence. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, Deputy Chair of the party, is also expected to announce a new finance system for the party - derailing the idea that the party is funded by elites and the money unequally distributed to local organisations. 
The Three-M speech will cover a wide range of topics but the pinnacle of the speech shall be the chair's plan to make the party more moderate and electable. Malan will tell party members, "toxicity is the plague and heavy, unbreathable fog of this party. It cannot, under any circumstances, continue." It is yet unclear how far Malan will go with his speech: it will be his first major address to the party and upsetting, or demonising, key elements of his own party will lead to his popularity being left in the gutter. In politics, reputation is everything.
Godfrey Martin Huggins, Deputy Party Leader and Chair of the Party's Policy Unit, recently spoke at a university graduation convention where he told graduates, "you are all about to embark upon the word, and that is key. You embark upon the world, it does not embark upon you. You will not be given things on a plate, on some platter; quite the opposite, I'm afraid. It will be up to you to be the chef to serve that plate, and up to you to wear the glove upon which the platter is carried." Later, Huggins commented that this was his view of policy and conservatism -- he believes the conservative policy shall be driven by the idea that individuals create their own opportunity and the individual, above the Government, best know how to live their life, or at least have the pursuit of it.
The robust leadership team of the Conservative Unionists are all united about one clear thing: the party remains ever more moderate, or dies. Only the next coming weeks can tell whether they are serious about keeping this front. Conservative MP, Kieaser Nimradi, best sums up the situation: "if a horse chases a pony, it will win. If a horse chances it luck against a cheetah, not only will it lose, but it will also be dead and eaten - alive."
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