Party Conferences by Numbers
by Claire Coulier
During party conference season, Demos held:
32 events across Lib Dem, Labour, and Tory - scrap that, 31 and 1 cancellation - involving
141 speakers and
3 weeks on the road in Bournemouth, Brighton, and Manchester with
3 packets of Blu-Tack used for signage across
12 different venues, only
2 of which had catering anywhere near half-decent like the
500 sandwiches eaten at the Manchester Town Hall accompanied by
900 bottles of beer for the Demos party that lead to
2 enormous hangovers (thank you Spectator party) soothed by
more barely-edible tandoori chicken skewers than we ever want to see again in our lives!
Tom Clayton
Make that 3 enormous hangovers!