UK Conservatives Told To Hide Conference Passes When Walking Around Manchester

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Source: Yahoo

Conservatives attending their annual party conference this weekend have been advised to hide their passes when walking around Manchester.

Worried about the threat of hostile protest, Tory bosses have told activists to exercise caution when venturing outside the security ‘ring of steel’ surrounding the Manchester Convention Centre and Midland Hotel where the conference will be held.

Party chairman Lord Feldman sent an email to people attending the conference telling them it was “particularly important” this year to take their Conservative branded identification badges off in town, due to “safety concerns.”

The TUC and People’s Assembly are both planning protests against government’s spending cuts, The Independent reports. Manchester has particularly suffered from the Conservative’s austerity programme - ten borough councils are facing a a £285m budget reduction this year alongside £1.2bn austerity since 2010.


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To be honest, I doubt many Tories would be planning on venturing too far outside of the conference venue anyway. It's a wonder that Manchester agrees to the cost of holding party conferences in the first place.

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1. If you don't piss off the people, you won't have anything to fear from them.

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2. It is just possible...

... that if politicians were more responsive to the concerns of the people, they wouldn't have a need to fear them. But then they might lose the bucks (or pounds, as may be) from supporting the vested interests.

-- Mal

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3. A Labour delegate once explained to me...

...that the best thing about Manchester as a conference venue is that it's such high security that you're cocooned off from the riff raff outside.

And that's why I don't want a party conference being held anywhere near me. Huge bill for the local taxpayer, and the delegates actually tend to keep in the venue and away from local businesses.

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4. Reminds me of David Hume's caution...

... advising his fellow Enlightenment theorists to keep it down to a dull roar: "The rabble out of doors" (that's you and me, mate) "may deduce from the clamour that they hear, that all is not well within." Stay isolated and stay healthy.

-- Mal

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5. The Labour delegate in question....

...is having a hard time accepting that people overwhelmingly prefer Jeremy Corbyn to Liz Kendall, which says it all really.

But back to the Tories. Even though the centre of Manchester is a lot better than it used to be, I very much doubt that many Tory delegates will be rushing out to sample the best of what Manchester has to offer.