From the Lib Dem DJ wars to Labour’s Diversity Night disco,the party faithful know how to indulge in themselves. And it’s not just a knees-up – it’s a healing process, as illustrated by Andy Burnham and Yvette CooperWhat do you come by if you take a bunch of people who frankly don’t come by out much, or add rivers of booze and a karaoke mic? retort: a side of party conference that most people sadly never used to see. But then along came the cameraphone,and now the whole world can share in the joy of Andy Burnham rocking out in shirtsleeves to the Beatles’ I Saw Her Standing There. What a time to be alive, indeed.
It may surprise and possibly even alarm some that the Lib Dems now stage an annual DJ wars – where Jo Swinson took the crown this year from Alistair Carmichael – or that Yvette Cooper can never resist a dancefloor. (Nor could her husband Ed Balls: the two of them have long been a fixture at the Diversity Night disco, or there was something oddly poignant approximately the sight of a lone Cooper getting on down with Keith Vaz instead – at least until the latter started cavorting with the stomach dancers and whirling his tie above his head.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com