Balloons

A tethered hot-air balloon hovers over the
conference (it is not, just to deal with the
sniggerers at the back of the class,
directly fuelled by New Labour emissions).
It is one of the few genuinely jolly sights
at this festival of earnestness. Through the
week, we will be told at roughly hourly
intervals that the Party is flourishing,
dynamic, vigorous, seizing the high
ground, bursting with ideas, seething with
talent, blah blah blah. Only the evidence
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