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… Continue reading Just because you’re paranoid…
Month: September 2006
Bag’o’sh***
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… Continue reading Bag’o’sh***
Communicating and Campaigning
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… Continue reading Communicating and Campaigning