Sunday and sticky rain greeted many of the Labour delegates and general cling-ons, the town bristling with people was a welcome to many of the hotels who had been hit by the constant changeable weather of this summer.
The talk among the people in the bars, restaurants and gardens was elections, and were we prepared, some felt so others weren't to sure, even Bournemouth's West own candidate muttered something along the words of "pointless", when the question was brought up at a Fabian fringe meeting.
Other debates included the stoppage of the BNP, Northern Rock and the Impending Iranian question, but not my question on the media and it's power, ah well you can't win everything or in fact anything when your brolly suddenly breaks mid-walk to the second of the fringe meetings.
Fabian Society: Question Time
The first of the two fringe meetings was in the surroundings of Hot Rocks Cafe, a seafront venue with the surfboards around, over looking the vast coast in front. Free Wine and nibbles greeted the large yet subdued crowd, and the panel consisted of Ed Balls, David Blunkett among others.
What struck me was the quality of debate, whilst Blunkett a former minster seemed to drive over the views of others, Balls was more compassionate more aware and delivered the best of the comments. For example: when commenting on the foreboding general election decision he was cagey, but it is clear that an election will be held in Spring and not in 5 or so weeks, the decision to neither confirm or deny is to shake the Conservatives, and Conservatives already battered and bruised by the government handling of as Blunkett described: Fire, pestilence, famine and Capitalism.
On faith schools, Ed Balls said that it was not the case that the government wanted to increase faith schools, yet "certain faith schools had worked better in communicating than the none secular schools". He however in a rare backtracking motion suggested that this was not common among all faith based institutions and neither were all secular schools were non cooperative.
Young Fabian Reception
I'm not sure on when you stop becoming young, but some of the people at the launch of a pamphlet on how to stop the BNP must of been past the bench mark of 31. Anyhow I don't discriminate just ailenate, spending most of the time talking to this old woman and drinking far too much wine, It got to me in the end, shortly leaving after a passionate but brilliant speech by Liam Byrne.
And thus Day 1 ended.
The talk among the people in the bars, restaurants and gardens was elections, and were we prepared, some felt so others weren't to sure, even Bournemouth's West own candidate muttered something along the words of "pointless", when the question was brought up at a Fabian fringe meeting.
Other debates included the stoppage of the BNP, Northern Rock and the Impending Iranian question, but not my question on the media and it's power, ah well you can't win everything or in fact anything when your brolly suddenly breaks mid-walk to the second of the fringe meetings.
Fabian Society: Question Time
The first of the two fringe meetings was in the surroundings of Hot Rocks Cafe, a seafront venue with the surfboards around, over looking the vast coast in front. Free Wine and nibbles greeted the large yet subdued crowd, and the panel consisted of Ed Balls, David Blunkett among others.
What struck me was the quality of debate, whilst Blunkett a former minster seemed to drive over the views of others, Balls was more compassionate more aware and delivered the best of the comments. For example: when commenting on the foreboding general election decision he was cagey, but it is clear that an election will be held in Spring and not in 5 or so weeks, the decision to neither confirm or deny is to shake the Conservatives, and Conservatives already battered and bruised by the government handling of as Blunkett described: Fire, pestilence, famine and Capitalism.
On faith schools, Ed Balls said that it was not the case that the government wanted to increase faith schools, yet "certain faith schools had worked better in communicating than the none secular schools". He however in a rare backtracking motion suggested that this was not common among all faith based institutions and neither were all secular schools were non cooperative.
Young Fabian Reception
I'm not sure on when you stop becoming young, but some of the people at the launch of a pamphlet on how to stop the BNP must of been past the bench mark of 31. Anyhow I don't discriminate just ailenate, spending most of the time talking to this old woman and drinking far too much wine, It got to me in the end, shortly leaving after a passionate but brilliant speech by Liam Byrne.
And thus Day 1 ended.
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