So am back again at the Labour conference, this time it's at sunny Brighton. I'll actually be going to the Tories as well next week (tectonic plates, shifts of power and all that) but haven't figured out how to change the name and description of my blog to reflect this.
Anyway, just thought I would spread a delicious rumour going around the bars at the moment to which I will make a very tenous marketing link at the end.
Apparently a prominent right-wing blogger had hatched a plot to create havoc during Gordon's speech. The dastardly plan went thus. Blogger secures a stand at conference manned by disgruntled ex-soldiers with model helicopters seemingly meant for use on the said stand. However the real plan for the helicopters is to dive-bomb onto Brown from the balcony bearing subversive slogans.
This was foiled solely because the blogger applied too late to get access for the soldier-types.
The relevance to marketing? Always double-check your exhibitors before allowing them a presence at your conference no matter how desperate you are.
More insights of this calibre tomorrow. Off to the crash the New Statesman party.
