Month: September 2006
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Oh dear, the police are getting bored. They’ve started enforcing arbitrary rules on the myriad leafleters delivering outside of the Labour Conference secure zone, forcing them to stand behind invisible lines that, remarkably didn’t exist yesterday. Of more concern, I’ve just watched half a dozen police officers spend half an hour filming an anti-vivisectionist handing…
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The difference between Lib Dem and Labour conferences… At Lib Dem conferences, the Independent sponsor the “Bag for Life,” made of a substance called joot which conference attendees are encouraged to use, well, for life. At Labour conference, the Independent’s sponsored bag requests that you use it “for the duration of this conference”. Need I…
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Readers of Liberator will be aware that I’ve been having a disagreement with Chris Rennard about internal party democracy in that magazine’s pages over the last two issues. But there is one thing that the two of us do agree on, albeit possibly for different reasons: the English, Welsh and Scottish State Parties’ proposal for…
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A few months ago I wrote about how the media, once they’ve decided on a narrative, use every single minor incident they can to reaffirm this while downplaying every major event that contradicts it. In that case I was talking about Ming Campbell and the fact that the media had settled on narrative focussed on…
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For reasons I won’t go into now, I find myself at Labour Party conference. To be precise, I’m currently sitting in the Starbucks outside the Midland Hotel in Manchester. Simply everyone is here, darlings. Dave Miliband and his band of sycophants have just left. Geoff Hoon is sitting behind me and a man has just…