Monday, 5 September 2011

Autumn Travel Guide... When to escape the Party Conferences.

For those dreading their TV screens and daily newspapers being hijacked by the procession of Party Conferences with their tedious interviews, hand wringings, sharing of your pain, posturings, shouts of yah boo from the media and all the rest, here is a guide of where not to be and when starting in about 3 weeks time.

For those allergic to Birmingham and the Lib Dems, be away 17-21 September to be sure to miss the utterances of the party that is sort of partly in government but is largely hugely embarrassed by it and would rather be back on the barricades or just in more familiar and comfortable obscurity.

For those who find the tag "Too far and too fast" applied to anything that might produce a more efficient, higher quality, less buurocratic or smaller state sector, has begun to grate and become just too tedious especially when not balanced by anything sounding like "but here's what we would do..",Liverpool and Labour are definately worth a miss. That's 25th to 29th September.

And for the rest who would like to see Dave enunciate a firm political philosophy and resolutely tough it out rather than try to be all things to all Lib Dem and Tory people and who know they are likely to be disappointed, Manchester from 2nd to 5th October is the place to avoid.

In fact somewhere pleasant, small and far away nowhere near a British network TV or newspaper will be the best guarantee of calm blood pressure, no disappointments and be the best place to go. See your travel agent now.