The political conference season is now beginning. Like the swallow that heralds the summer or perhaps more like a stormy petrel, the Trade Union Congress last week descended on Blackpool. Its proceedings filled the front pages and the news bulletins, thoroughly depressing everyone except the trade union leaders themselves and those of their followers who have no thought beyond tomorrow’s pay package.
Nothing which happened at Blackpool was in the least surprising, of course; but that was small comfort.
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