Conference Confidential
Cheap plastic buckets and spades full of conference gossip
Nanny gets the jack-boots on
82-year-old Walter Wolfgang, a party activist of fifty years, is not the first person to suffer at the hands of Blair's hired muscle this week.
Austin Michel, the off-message MP for Grimsby, has his digital camera forcibly removed and its memory erased after he took photos of a queue for conference passes whilst waiting in line with his wife.
The beeb too, not known to be the most vehement critics of the government since the Hutton report, has suffered from 'New' Labour's Stasi-style censorship. A life-sized cardboard cut-out of Tony Blair stood next to the Daily Politics stand - delegates were encouraged to stick comments on post-it notes onto the deity. It was proving remarkably popular until Labour staffers accompanied by burly security men turned up and removed all the disparaging comments.
Nanny gets the jack-boots on
82-year-old Walter Wolfgang, a party activist of fifty years, is not the first person to suffer at the hands of Blair's hired muscle this week.
Austin Michel, the off-message MP for Grimsby, has his digital camera forcibly removed and its memory erased after he took photos of a queue for conference passes whilst waiting in line with his wife.
The beeb too, not known to be the most vehement critics of the government since the Hutton report, has suffered from 'New' Labour's Stasi-style censorship. A life-sized cardboard cut-out of Tony Blair stood next to the Daily Politics stand - delegates were encouraged to stick comments on post-it notes onto the deity. It was proving remarkably popular until Labour staffers accompanied by burly security men turned up and removed all the disparaging comments.
