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The Liberal City
Excerpt: The more astute amongst you might have noticed that a rather unusual event is taking place this week. I'm talking about an Autumn political conference in an inland city. Yours Truly was unable to lose his conference virginity in Brighton this year, but I am aware that Seaside Towns are the usual venue of choice.
The more astute amongst you might have noticed that a rather unusual event is taking place this week. I'm talking about an Autumn political conference in an inland city. Yours Truly was unable to lose his conference virginity in Brighton this year, but I am aware that Seaside Towns are the usual venue of choice.
Much has been made of Labour's decision to visit Manchester this year, rather than one of the Big Three seaside venues. The Peterloo Massacre is pointed to; Marx and Engels' studies of such utter urban deprivation. But is Labour really returning to its roots?
But if there were ever to be a city to epitomise Liberalism, Manchester would be it. It is the city of Cobden and Bright. The city where Free Trade was successfully fought for. The city that stood up against the centralising power of the state and the Metropolitan elite. The city that dragged itself up by its boot-straps from the stagnation of the 1970s, the unemployment of the 1980s, and the the indifference of the Southern establishment. In other words, the city that every Liberal should hold dear to its heart, highlighting in its resurgence all that is wrong in the Labour and Conservative parties.
I hope we will be visiting soon.
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'but I am aware that Seaside Towns are usually the venue of choice'
What an astute comment,how long did it take you to work that out?
Apart from what other comment are we expected to make about this vacuos piece of prose.
Clearly the venue used by the Labour party in Manchester is far too big for a minor party conference for parties like the Lib Dems,unless you wanted to play spot the delegate.
(i) That you have no sense of irony,(ii) that you can't spell "vacuous", and (iii) that your grasp of English grammar and punctuation is tenuous at best.
D-minus, Bobby-Boy!
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"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am sure that there are plenty of smaller venues in the Manchester area for the Lib Dems to use,village halls for example.
If we have to repay the £2.4 million from our now in the clink donor then a village hall could be a stretch.
I'm delighted to see that Robert = Richard = Richard (what is it with names beginning with 'R' ;o) ) has decided Liberal Review is important enough to become our regular stalker / spammer. Very much looking forward to your first intellgent comment, R.
Oxonian, he's also "roger". So that's a mere three "personalities" (I use the term in its loosest sense, of course). Being Liberal sorts, I suppose we should celebrate offering a Care in the Community service to the likes of R/R/R, but it would be nice to have someone who could heckle in a more cerebral fashion. More along the lines of:
"Sir, I know not whether you will die at the gallows or of the pox!"
"That, sir, depends upon whether I embrace your morals or your wife!"
Now that is proper abuse ;o)
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"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I see Blair echoed my sentiments on Manchester, except he attributed it to the Labour Council!
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"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.