Alex Foster

Getting along swimmingly

By | Wed 17th September 2008 - 7:32 am

Apart from the one bout of not-fisticuffs-honest it seems everyone else is getting along with each other all terribly well.

Chris Huhne is not, as you may have seen reported casting a shadow over anything.

Our Make it Happen debate was not a case of of the party’s lefties battling it out with right-winger Clegg, but rather a sensible, mature corker of a debate the like of which we have seen at almost all of our recent conferences that allows us to congratulate ourselves for being the party of debate. And that causes even those in other parties, like Iain Dale who was watching from home on BBC Parliament, to remark wistfully on how this sort of thing is entirely missing from their own conferences.

All our recent past leaders are here – I’ve seen Ashdown in the exhibition and Kennedy and Campbell on various talking heads things, which mean they’re probably in the building somewhere.

Even Brian Paddick, widely tipped by the ignorant commentariat to be fed up with the Lib Dems after his Daily Mail diaries earlier in the year, is here and seems to be having fun. Not only did he move the motion on our high profile crime debate – an eminently suitable person to do so – but he also seems to have a group of rather nice young men canvassing in bars for support for his attempt at getting elected to our Interim Peers Panel.

All in all, we seem to be getting along swimmingly.

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