Why Not Have Tory Conference in Nice, France?
A flight from London to Nice on Easyjet is cheaper than a train ticket from London to Blackpool and it is quicker. The conference facilities in Nice are modern. The hotels are better and cheaper, the food is superb and there is still a chance of some sunshine. It would also show that the Tories are not xenophobic or anti-European. Guido is debating whether or not to go to Blackpool at all - it is so grim up north...
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just watched williams opening speech, bit uneven to start off but he delivered for me, gordon the calculator , well input this dear trolls , if you dont call an election nu labour will have a electorate wanting blood , have you noticed that figure on reposessions rising yet , can you hear the aspirations of millions of people breaking in the face of your paper wealth experiment yet.
you will dear trolls you will
not only some may say its grim up north , but at lab HQ its psoitively like cheuchescaus last meet the public event and that was grim.
thanks
red despot spotter
Blackpool is awful. We (Lib Dems) were there in 2005, and you can see why they want the casino. Even if they end up being Atlantic City instead of Vegas, that's a huge step forward from the state that Blackpool is in.
The rest of the North is nothing like as grim - try Liverpool, Manchester or Leeds
Have any of you ever stayed at the Norbreck Castle? It's known among the journos as Colditz.
Guido even Blackpool is nicer than Hull ;-)
Nice may be Nice, but its a bit far for Dave to pedal!
I've heard talk that Gordon Brown might be unwell. Anyone heard anything on the rumour mill?
He does look tired and run down.
We can hope, anon @3.41 - nothing too trivial I trust.
What is it with the Conservatives in Blackpool & Nu-Liebour in Bournemouth, did they get mixed up?
Don't look to Dave for any self-confidence inspiring idea such as Nice. He still doesn't get it, and will have to be replaced sooner rather than later.
Guido: "A flight from London to Nice on Easyjet is cheaper"
That presupposes that: 1) you start your journey from London, rather than, say, anywhere else in the country (where there are quite a lot of Conservatives); and, 2) Easyjet don't adjust their prices in line with demand (as they do), and of course that they have sufficient capacity to cope with demand - Dave's lot can still fill more than a plane or two can't they?
Bloody soft southern fairies...
anon 3.41 heard a suggestion elsewhere (political betting?) that he has high blood pressure.
If he thinks it's high now, wait until the picture of him on the rocking horse gets published...
French Disneyland has plenty of space and ideal for the odd stunt.
Guido, take your bucket and spade and go for a paddle on the beach at Blackpool. Write something libertarian in the sand and see if the Conservatives are as bothered as Gordon & Co are about stopping free speech?
Disneyland is a great idea and Dave could get great publicity from the watersplash.
Limehouse near Canary Wharf is the cool location for the modernisers in UKIP.Bugger Blackpool go to the Troxy,so handy fro the City and Bangla Town too!
xenophobic and anti-European sound like surefire election winners to me.
Perhaps Gordon Brown has a stress-related illness. He's certainly never around when there's bad news to announce - is there a medical reason for this I wonder?
In 1973, the the Federation of Conservative Students arranged to havce their Annual Conference in Paris- actually the Chairman was a Heathite. Those of us who were anti EEC grumbled but in our hearts we quite fancied Paris
So two weeks before we get an emergency message Paris is off, its NOTTINGHAM. Oh ****. Never trusted a Heathite ever again. Can't even get what they believed in right!
anon 3;10
norbreck castle is in southport
and you are wright
its a craphole
andrew 4:35 PM
Nothing I like better than a dull wet Sunday afternoon.
Max Headrest
and their [sic] is still a chance of some sunshine
Good to see that you are letting your precocious little daughter help run the family business, Guido old chap! Very educational!
My family loves Blackpool. It's the sort of place where decent, pissed -up, barking mad doctors can go to neglect their children without any dago coppers sticking their oily noses in. Incompetent foreign cunts.
Plane prices to Nice!
What a thrilling topic for conversation!
Guido got the day off...?
I visited Blackpool some years ago.
It was closed.
So not only are the Tories the English party, they're now retreating into the London and SE party. That one really sticks two fingers up to the rest of the country - Blackpool is too difficult to get to from London so the rest of you can sod off.
The Hitch
It's bloody not in Southport.
But it is a shithole.
http://www.britanniahotels.com/hotel_home.asp?page=200
if the conseravtives really did care about the environment they would have their conference in France. eco friendly aircraft with a hugely reduced cardon footprints.
wonder how big the cardon footprint for all political parties is at this time of year,,,,,maybe they should all get web cams and do it online
........and a follow on from Andrew 4.34
Its not really quicker either(or only a bit quicker) when you take into account travel time to & from airport with the check-in times.
And about that Tory confe....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
anon 3.41
This weekend the Black Dog has come back to haunt Gordon, I hear from my local Labour MP. The PM appears to be an extremely fragile creature.
He was looking burnt out and mumbling almost incoherently on television earlier today.
If the drugs kick in then maybe he'll call an election, but if the Tories continue the good start they had today and Gordon sinks into a deeper depression then it's all off for 2007.
With the economy now on a negative course for the next few years it would have been his one and only chance to win.
You snotty, pretentious bunch of southern pricks. So Blackpools a bit rough round the edges, well so fucking what. The punters who come here love it and have a great time unlike you ivory tower dwelling London cunts who wouldn't know a good time if it bit you on the arse.
And while we're talking about violent shitholes, what about London which is more like a civil war region in Africa these days.
And while we're on about downmarket shitholes, what about Southend? Or Hastings aka Smack City. Or Brighton full of benders or Scottish alkies trying to ponce money for drink.
Stick yer whelks up yer arse, fuckin nonses.
[i]Perhaps Gordon Brown has a stress-related illness. He's certainly never around when there's bad news to announce - is there a medical reason for this I wonder? - Anon 6:05[/i]
Not sure if medical, but yes there is a reason - cowardice.
Is the BBC's John Pienaar a member of the Labour Party?
I saw the interview with Brown today. He looked chronically depressed and was barely intelligible. There's something up there.
i have to agree with the pepsi max, u suvners are living in a multiculteral ethnic diverse eco friendly hell hole
bj
they must have changed the name
its rare that I forget a shit hotel where I have gotten arseholed
However, I have gotten arseholed in a lot of them.
Will do more research (hate to lose a point)
Southport is even shittier than Blackpool .
Any seaside town place that requires you to drive through miles of sprout fields to get to only to fin the ficking sea isnt there has to be a shit hole.
just to cut across the cultiral divide here, I'm a Northerner and I hate Blackpool too. It's a dump.
Now if you want a really scary thought, the new conference complex at Bridlington will be ready next year.
Tories planning to hammaer "non-doms" on tax. IF YOU ARE STILL A MEMBER - LEAVE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.
I've worked all over the country in my time, and the worst place by far was down south in Bracknell. Everything closed at 6pm except MacDonalds which closed at 8, and a couple of crap pubs serving flat beer and full of poncy folk singers.
Even the fucking multi-storey car park closed, and I had to tailgate a season-ticket holder to get out at 10 pm.
At least in Blackpool you can have a bit of fun.
Midlander
Personally I'd prefer Cannes.
(I remember the Libs having their conference in my home town of Margate once. Nowadays, the nearest decent hotel bedrooms are in Ostend)
"IF YOU ARE STILL A MEMBER - LEAVE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY"
Party membership is irrelevent. British politics are the politics of envy, and always have been. There are more DOMS than NON-DOMS, and they are more likely to vote.
Guido has a point.
Why. The fuck. Would you go to Blackpool.
When you have the rest of the country and some great parts of Europe to choose from.
If we are Europeans, then why not Nice, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, or even fucking Calais rather than that well-known shithole even the Labour party avoids?
As an Essex girl, I have been to Sarfend hundreds of times.
I have been to Blackpool twice: it makes Sarfend look like the epitome of sophistication and glamour.
There is nothing the matter with the NorthEast of England, just with the cesspit that is Blackpool.
judith said...
There is nothing the matter with the NorthEast of England, just with the cesspit that is Blackpool.
Blackpool is in the northWEST you moronic Essex slapper
i hate to say it but politics do all aorts of strange things to people ,, if gordon is realising what his options are now (and causing him some indegestion) he should have told us a wee bit more truth in the last 5 yrs.
remember what michael grade said "never decieve the british people" , do you think he was right on the money with that statement now.
if you cant get the uk out of this mess , then tell us you cant and call an election. no offence gordon but the office of her majesties prime minister has one key description in that you must be sure you can run the country , if your not sure, you cant hold the office (for any length of time)
thanks
red despot spotter
The Black Dog? Let me take you back to the last episode of In The Thick of It - Spinners and Losers.
It is filmed overnight as the chief spin doctor Malcolm tries to come up with a stalking horse to stop 'Tom' standing for party leader unopposed. Tom's supporters are know as the 'nutters'.
(familiar so far?)
Failing to find a candidate, malcolm and his scottish sidekick have a row about Tom being unopposed. The sidekick is panicing about a PM 'who is visited by the black dog every three months...and it shits on his duvet and takes three weeks to get rid of it'. (I paraphrase).
I think the makers of Thick of It were dropping some big clues. And remember the fuss when somebody in No10 when Brown was called psychologically flawed?
It all adds up.
Midlander 10.49 PM ... "I've worked all over the country in my time, and the worst place by far was down south in Bracknell."
What an inane comment. Bracknell doesn't claim to be a resort. It is no different from most other dormitory towns in the evening.
Maybe you got names confused and were expecting to be in Brighton.
Why not go back to using Brighton again or are the Tories still worried about IRA bomb attacks or is it that they feel that Brighton is 'unlucky'? Given the number of Tory MP's who have various boyfriends/catamites stashed away down there I would have thought it would be an ideal time for Cameron to stand up and say "we are no longer afraid of terrorism".
Of course there's the added bonus that he can take George the Humunculus along for bracing walks along the pier ... he likes the sea air.
George Formby 1155pm "Essex Slapper" is a tautology, which you would know if you had ever visited the place. Get up, go out, do some travelling. Leave the uke at home though, unless you want to have inserted deep into you by some young Brentwood-ites.
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There's nowt wrong with Blackpool. At least it is not pi**ing down with rain like it here in the South.
Grim up north.....
That is so eighties!
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I went to Blackpool for a wet weekend and discovered the exotic North East I found most of the girls warm and easy to get along with, so if you like to get totally rat arsed eat the finest fish and chips in the land and snuggle down warm and cosy with a couple of Lancashire girls it’s a five star recommendation from me.
Those Northern girls really know how to spoil a man.
Not sure about Nice any prior out there?
guido doesn't like the north, great. we'll never have to bump into the fucker up here then!
by the way, it was only "grim" during the 80's, thanks to mrs T... the t was for twat.
Don't be a cunt all your life anon 1.21. I well remember what a shithole the North was under your old heroes Wilson & Callaghan. Mrs T (God bless her) only shone a light on the cockroaches and watched them scurry away.
Indeed, and for those delegates wishing to get tired and emotional pdq the red light district is on a walk from the airport to the hotels!
Surprised Easyjety do not give vouchers!!!
I think that says it all!
Doesn't the Cameron anti-Europe police monitor this blog?
No decent Conservative would ever think of France as 'Nice'. They are the original enemy ffs!
Sadly Blackpool really is the pits of the country, nevermind the north. Stuck in the 60's and plagued by drunken youth. I stayed in a B&B there, and on booking in the owner said stains on the sheets will be charged for. I wondered if there were different rates for various types of stains. Maybe size or quantity were factors.
It's sad the whole of the north gets stereotyped. They could have gone to Harrogate. Suitable conference hall, plenty of fine hotels, restaurants, bars, rail/motorway links and Leeds Bradford airport. Many southerners would feel quite at home there.
But the south of France sounds good to me. All the conservatives out of the country at the same time, now there is a thought.
Chris
Lock up your ferrets, put the whippets in kennels, hang up your flat caps. Hellllohhh Baby, Nice here we come.
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