One final thing I have to say about the party conferences this year, and this is not a partisan point, is the state of policing at the various party conferences this year. At the Lib Dem conference, as usual, the police were almost non-existent. No great surprise there as the party is simply not a… Continue reading Policing Party Conferences
Month: October 2007
Rock the Vote – a Tory front?
Amongst many of the things that was being handed out at Tory conference (including a flyer alleging that Shami Chakrabarti is “worse than Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich”), was a card promoting a new Rock the Vote website. A US-staple designed to encourage young people to vote, the first UK Rock the Vote emerged in the… Continue reading Rock the Vote – a Tory front?
The Conservatives and Scientology
One of the things about working at the party conferences is that you often find yourself too busy to actually do the conference itself. So it was that I didn’t get a chance to visit the Conservative Party exhibition until Tuesday afternoon. I was therefore very surprised to find, almost as soon as I walked… Continue reading The Conservatives and Scientology