Darren John Hayday (born May 23, 1974) Conservative Councillor for Wycombe District Council and hopeful entrepreneur.



Darren Hayday was born and raised in High Wycombe and became involved in local politics aged 28, when successfully winning a seat in the UK local elections, 2003.

He knocked out the long standing former Labour Leader/Mayor/Chairman of the Council, in his debut election for the ward, that he has lived and was brought up in for most of his life; he wasn’t expected to win (rather to gain experience) as the ward was in a traditional Labour voting area.[1393]

He soon had the honour of being the Deputy Mayor of High Wycombe and became the deputy whip and vice chairman of the ruling Conservative group of Councillors.

In 2005 he became a frontbench cabinet spokesman (for High Wycombe Town)

During 2006 he became a Vice Chairman of Personnel and Development, for the District Council.

Background

Darren’s childhood was very humble, with his very early years being raised in a caravan, in the back garden of his grandparent’s home, then living in a council estate for a number of years, before his family having the chance to afford to purchase their own house in a new part of town.

Darren didn’t have the privileged educational background, that many in his party at the top level enjoy, he was state educated at the Cressex Secondary School in High Wycombe (where a police riot van would normally be parked outside the school gates on a Friday afternoon and knives and replica guns were a fashion accessory, for some pupils at the school)

After his parents divorced when aged 12 and especially after an unfortunate episode when robbed at gunpoint, aged 18, Darren fell in with the wrong crowd and had what in his own words were “some mad times and a walk on the wild side”. He was told some 10 years later in his life that he had been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which he successfully battled against and overcome.

Darren had periods in his early life, of being temporary unemployed and even homeless, where he lived for over a year in a YMCA (along with drug dealers, prostitutes, and even, future murderers)

He finally grew up and decided to turn his life around and take a route through politics, to help in some way, to hopefully inspire other people to also change for the better. (to be the role model that he lacked at a vulnerable time in his life)

He never hides his background and is proud of his working class roots, he even considers himself lucky that he has mixed with all types of people from every background.

He states that if he helps just one person to turn their life around, then he has succeeded in his very biggest personal ambition.

Current life

Darren is married to Hungarian born, ‘Orsolya Hayday’ (neè Világhy); the granddaughter of Baron von Világhy (who keeps his feet on the ground and a large smile on his face).
Orsolya had moved to England in 2000, to learn the language and was a student until 2003 when Hungary joined the EU.

She is currently a bank manager and Director in EFI Enterprises.

They married in a small ceremony, on the beaches of Cuba in 2006.

Darren wishes, one day to carry on his hobby of flying helicopters, but has been (quite literately) ‘grounded’ by his current, mortgage life assurance policy (who he had to sign away, his love of flying, in order to keep his payments to a realistic level)

In 2006 Darren was selected by his peers, to become the next Mayor of High Wycombe, where he currently is the Mayor Elect. He will be one of the towns youngest mayors aged only 31, since the first ever town mayor in 1285.

In 2005 he started a successful telemarketing business called EFI Enterprises Ltd and is also the founder of The Youngish Conservative Foundation, which is a right to centre social club that meets in South Bucks.

His commercial background is working within the media, particularly; Dun & Bradstreet, Yellow Pages & The Local Radio Company. He has over 15 years solid sales and marketing experience, where his very early working life started as a paper boy, kitchen porter, supermarket shelf stacker/cashier in Tesco, selling assistant and then working his way to being a professional salesman where he earned his stripes at Yellow Pages for three years.

Darren is an active freemason and is in both the Bulwer Lodge of Cairo (no 1068) and the Herschel Mark Masters Lodge that are both based in Buckinghamshire.
He states that being a freemason is like having many older uncles who give him very good advice and camaraderie.
His main reasons for joining the masons were because his all time hero Sir Winston Churchill was also a freemason and Darren has a passion for history.

The Conservative Party

Darren is an active David Cameron supporter and believes that one day the Conservative Party will pull itself back into power, when it sorts itself out.

He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his great, great uncle into the House of Commons, once he is noticed in the hierarchy of the party for his skill, abilities and dynamic personality.

Darren has worked as the Political Assistant to Paul Goodman MP for High Wycombe (for his successful increased majority of the 2005 General Election), he is heavily involved with his local Conservative Association branch and also the surrounding Conservative Associations.

He has also helped canvass and deliver leaflets for numerous Conservative candidates, in bye-elections, on a local and regional level.

Darren was elected a Council Member for the Bow Group in 2006. (the oldest right to centre think tank in Britain)

Darren has not followed political suit, in the footsteps of past family British Labour Party and TUC pioneers (instead breaking the mould towards the Conservative Party.)

His Great Uncle is Sir Frederick Hayday and his Great, Great Uncle is Arthur Hayday, MP for Nottingham West 1918 to 1945, who was one of the founding members of the current Labour party and who was at the very first meeting that they held in their history, over a hundred years ago.

It was down to finding out that a past family member, had made his name in the history books, by also coming from a very traditional, hard working environment and who nearly made it as a Government Minister ,that convinced Darren to follow a once trodden path and see if he could go a stage further.

External links

Wycombe Conservatives constituency site

Hayday's Blog

EFI Enterprises Ltd

Mayor of High Wycombe

Wycombe District Council