Party like it’s 1979
If a Labour revival is on the way no-one seems to have realised it in Birmingham. A tour of the bars in the Hyatt Regency - the main conference hotel - revealed a collection of very happy delegates busy ignoring the leadership’s suggestions that they should look serious in the face of looming economic disaster. Typical quote: ‘Whatever he [Brown] does he’s finished. Everyone’s fed up with him’. Perhaps they have all read George Osborne’s economic reconstruction plan as leaked to the BBC. Or perhaps they’ve all had too much to drink. Either way the atmosphere is a lot more upbeat than Manchester.