Welcome to occupied Manchester.

They’ve actually blocked off a fair chunk of the city centre, with no
access at all except to the apparat. Great. Treated like a terrorist
suspect in my own city. This isn’t a public event. It’s the sales
conference of the governing party. Why can’t they just piss off into
the countryside somewhere and find some defensible space to conduct
their orgies in? The Evening News, relying on Manchester City Council’s
Department of Statistics I just Pulled out of my Arse, says the shindig
will be “worth £15 million”. Spent on what exactly, I don’t know. Old
Labour were famously curry monsters of major proportions, but I can’t
imagine what this lot are going to spend money on. Coloured paper
clips, maybe. Illustrated compilations of the greatest powerpoint
presentations of our age.