I’m always open to new experiences – but today I’m taking that a step further normal. Yes, this is the first time I will ever have been inside a Labour Party Conference. It’ll be an interesting safari in a strange, left wing land which I’m not accustomed to – for obvious reasons.

I’ve got only two concerns about how the day is going to go.

The first is how people might react when they find out I used to work at the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Suffice to say that as a libertarian, low spending, tax-cutter who loathes political correctness, my work at the TPA might not have made me the most popular person in some quarters. In a way I’m quite looking forward to seeing how wide (and/or extreme) a range of responses I can get.

The second concern is that going by past experience the police might try to shoot me. The first time I went anywhere near Labour Conference – collecting signatures against ID cards outside the conference centre in Brighton in 2005 – it ended up with five policemen carting me off under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. Hopefully the police in Manchester won’t be trying to outdo their Brighton colleagues. I’m a bit surprised they’ve actually given me a pass – maybe Walter Wolfgang and I will bump into each other and reminisce.

I’ll be live-tweeting my adventures in LabourLand with the hashtag #WheresWallace Wish me luck!

Tags: Brighton, Labour Conference, Manchester, New Labour, Police, Politics, Red Ed, Socialism, TaxPayers' Alliance, Terrorism Act, Twitter, Westminster, Where's Wallace

Categories: Opinion, Politics, Westminster

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One Response

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   Nick:

   Just keep asking them what ordinary people should cut from their spending on their families to pay for Labour’s largess.

   Also keep pushing on the real debts. The 1.2 trillion for civil servants. 1.6 trillion for state pensions, PFI. Nuclear decommissioning, ….

   27.09.2010 08:15 Reply