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A load of Brummie Bloggers were invited to the Tory Conference at the ICC, this week. For almost all of us it was our first taste of a Party Conference, for all of us it was a weird experience as we spent a good deal of time wondering why we were invited and why we accepted. So, what did we (or in this case I) find out? 1. Spin all you like, it’s not possible to stay on message about Birmingham: “for one Conservative MP … the city already seems to have been hung, drawn and quartered. After the welcome drinks had started to flow he made his way through rowdy Saturday night revellers to queue at a secured hotel bar. “I’d forgotten just how vile Birmingham is,” he commented to his colleagues surveying the drunken scene. Unfortunately most of the rest of the queue was made up of members of the press.” This is Nottingham Blogs. 2. No one in the national press can cope with the name of the ICC (or International Convention Centre) It was often listed as the “International Conference Centre“, at one point the ITC and, most amusingly, at one point the “Indoor Conference...

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