Murder on the Dancefloor

BONG! The Spectator Coffeehouse reports that Cameron's crowbarring in the big names - Bojo and Hezza so far - as quickly as possible into the Colosseum. The plan is to entertain the crowd as much as possible in order that its collective mind is diverted away from thoughts of bloody assassination. Hmmm, it didn't work for Caligula, Dave.

BONG! Guido asks why the Tory Party Conference can't be held in Nice instead of Blackpool this year. Westmonster would have thought that a: persuading the Blue Rinse Wing of the Conservatives that spending a week with those darned Frenchies is a good idea; b: convincing the anti-Europe brigade that France is as British as Stella Artois; and c: arguing to the new greens that the emissions from several thousand hacks, politicians, and activists flying over the channel are probably not as great as those caused by poor people going on holiday semi-occasionally, might all prove a slightly tall order. Then again, maybe not.

BONG! Simon Jenkins queries whether the (political) party's over.

BONG! Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian outlines what David Cameron and the Conservative Party have to play for this week in Blackpool.

BONG! Sayeeda Warsi denies pandering to the BNP.

BONG! Mariella Frostrup on the critical response to her chairmanship of the Gordon Brown question and answer last week. Westmonster, as a fully paid up member of the sisterhood, agrees that personal attacks on a woman's appearance are certainly unacceptable - what the chuff is this, the nineteenth century? That said, she was still crap.

BONG! Henry Porter writes his first article on an actual police state instead of gibbering on about how the dread hand of the security services is behind the Tesco Club Card scheme, or whatever it is he usually goes on about.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 30 Sep 2007 5:35 PM. Permalink