I work weekends, but I’m considering making the below conference (details provided by Progress). I don’t do party political ones - not when they’re so terminally dull (politicians, in the main, do little for me), but I don’t mind think-tank and media events generally (as it’s usually columnists and thinkers, and even the MPs are freed of the tub-thumping bollocks).
Maybe see some of you there?
- PROGRESS ANNUAL CONFERENCE - ‘Countdown to the general election: how can Labour win?’
Saturday 3 November 2007
The East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf
Speakers include David Aaronovitch, Wendy Alexander, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, Nick Cohen, Yvette Cooper, Tony Giddens, Lynsey Hanley, Ed Husain, Peter Kellner, Oona King, Ed Miliband, Tim Montgomerie, Estelle Morris, James Purnell, Dave Rowntree, Polly Toynbee, and many more.
Seminar topics include foreign policy post-Iraq, the public services, housing, the security debate, equality and aspiration, business and social justice, Cameron and the Tories, Labour party reform, politics post-spin, the green agenda, and how progressives should engage with political Islam.
> **The postal strike means we are currently not receiving booking forms that are posted. The best way to book is online: please visit: http://www.progressonline.org.uk/Events/event.asp?e=869 **
I think I’d slash my wrists rather than an attend a meeting with such ghastly muscular liberals and vile Blairites, but each to their own.
Know thy enemy, dude…