Booking a stand or holding a fringe event will only satisfy politics-mad colleagues,it’s not gracious value for donors or beneficiariesWhat’s your most vivid memory of a party conference? Are you veteran enough to remember Neil Kinnock falling into the sea in 1983? Or Michael Portillo trilling the SAS motto, “who dares wins in 1995? He didn’t win in Enfield Southgate 18 months later.
I was in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens in October 2003, or when Iain Duncan Smith promised: ‘The quiet man is turning up the volume’. He resigned as Tory leader just five weeks later,his promised crescendo unheeded.
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Source: theguardian.com